"if the news doesn't suit your agenda, just lie about it" seems to be the modus operendi of the pseudo journalists that ply the trade these days.

Always remember the dimwit in the canoe, paddling bravely through the flood waters that devasted so many lives, while having to avoid the technicians who accidentally walked through her shot in six inches of water and "spoiled" her dramtic breaking news . . .

I was hoping the press would do a follow-up on the claims that the po' folk had to resort to cannibalism because President Bush did not personally deliver the rations to the Superdome.

I remember thinking WTF? Cannibalism? Good Lord, it's only day two. Are you THAT hungry? Holy $hit, day two and they were already writing the script for "Alive 2: Hey Kids, Grandma Tastes Like Chicken", a made-for-tv movie starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarrandon. Music by the Dixie Chicks. Special guest appearance by Harry Belafonte as Mayor Nagin.

Remember Anderson Cooper's crocodile tears? Or were they alligator tears? Remember Oprah going to Nawlins? Screw FEMA, Oprah will get things done, right?

Meanwhile, as Sean Penn bails out his boat with a Dixie cup, hundreds of school buses sat in the compound, partially submerged.....THESE are the two pictures I'll remember about Katina the most.

Anything they (MSM) can do to bring down the BushMcChimpHitler regime. Frightening.

So Oprah has now officially propagated two falsehoods on her show: Katrina mayhem and James Frey's book.

She indignantly confronted Frey on air regarding his lies. Wonder when she'll have Nagin and others on to confront them regarding their lies/exaggerations?

Hey, this doesn't surprise me at all - I'm a dog owner and we're used to the fabrication and staging of 'news' stories.

Here's an article on "pack journalism":

http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/7702519.html

"Instead of checking facts, the media prefer to follow what others are saying. And what others are saying is often inspired by establishment hardliners seeking to impose their agendas with the help of bogus news agencies, subsidized research outfits and hired scribblers."

...come on admit it, you were glued to CNN during the crisis...

I'd love to see a show featuring some of the most memorable bs moments from the big time reporters on New Orleans.

IMO, Shepard and Geraldo on FOX were terrible too.

It looked like there were just too many broadcast minutes that had to be filled.

The reports featured all kinds of what was to become laughable hearsay and innuendo and rumours.

Currently reading Douglas Brinkley's "The Great Deluge", and in it NOLA native and resident Brinkley tears Nagin and FEMA's Mike Brown new ones right through the entire book. Gov. Blanco is dealt with in slightly more sympathetic tones. The real first-responders were the big, heartless bastards like Walmart.
As far as media-weasels, NBC's Brian Williams is given thumbs up as are the freelancers hired by ABC. A local talkshow host who stayed on-air right through the storm is also considered highly by the residents for keeping his cool while the windows were blowing out of his studio.

It wasn't just the MSM that was spreading the falsehoods of cannibalism, hundreds of thousands dying, rape and murders. I recall, arguing with someone, I think it was on this blog, who was assuring everyone that cannibalism was rife, that hundreds were being raped and murdered in the shelters, that thousands were dead ..on and on..without a shred of proof.

But, he was asserting that it was true. I even think I recall his name!

Then there was the dimwit with the generators. Remember? ...

Mississippi has a place for heroes: Jail [man jailed for selling generators to Katrina victims]
jewishworldreview ^ | May 24, 2006 | John Stossel

Posted on 05/24/2006 11:44:31 AM PDT by grundle

John Sheperson is a hero. When Hurricane Katrina struck, he turned on the news and learned that people in Mississippi had lost electric power. They desperately needed generators. He decided to help them, while helping himself.

He borrowed money, bought 19 generators, rented a U-Haul and drove it 600 miles to Mississippi, where he offered to sell the generators for twice what he paid for them. Eager buyers surrounded his truck. "People were excited," he said.

So did the generators go to hospitals? To nursing homes? Did they save lives? Did Mississippi officials give Sheperson a medal? ... more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637629/posts

Maybe the truth about the levys will surface.
The feds had been giving money to New Orleans for years to shore up the levys but the tree huggers like the sierra club said to fix the levys would harm the fish and wildlife in the sippi river so nothing was done.
A disaster witing to happen. To bad the Mayor didn't load up all those school buses and evacuate all those po folks. The buses were lost as well as lives.

Bruce:
Douglas Brinkley also wrote the bio "Tour of Duty" for John Kerry. It provided the first account of young Lt(jg) Kerry spending Christmas 1968 in Cambodia under assault from the Khymer Rouge and calling President Nixon a liar for denying US troops were in Cambodia. Thus I might read his "Deluge" account with some skepticism.

Cheers

Kate, you might be interested in this: http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_2_houston.html

A long read, but definitely worth it.

Psuedo-blogged in real time here, by Yer Obediant Servant:

-HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links--

Note particularly the "live thread" links ( 23 of them ) which covered Katrina as it happened.

MsM is asleep at the wheel on this.
No, the band is GREAT!
It*s the MSM that seems sickly lately.

*Tomorrow is a very important day for the future of the Internet,*

said Paul Misener, an Amazon vice president. He warned that phone and cable companies will run roughshod over their customers, *unless Congress acts to stop them* by approving alternative legislation prepared by Sens. Olympia Snowe of Maine and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota.

By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: May 24, 2006, 10:41 AM PDT : http://tinyurl.com/fa8h4

My personal opinion? Rogers Sugar were criminals when workers owed them mony after a months work.

Multiply that ten fold for today*s Pirates AT&T and Rogers. TG

As a Houstonian, I can vouch for a lot of what is written in the article Peter Rempel linked to, and say that next time NOLA gets hit Houston won't be opening up it's arms so fast.

The dredges of Chocolate City ended up staying here while the actual hardworking minority of New Orleans residents have already gone back to rebuild or moved on. That "give a man a fish/teach him how to fish" thing is lost on the majority of evacuees. They are still trying to get more money from anyone but an employer. Kind of like Dipper entitlements. Sad but true and heaven help you if you mention this as the race card comes out faster than you can say Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton.

As in Iraq, the MSM always tried to put a humanity vs bad Bush spin on this disaster but one thing always puzzled me. Every time a reporter from any MSM outlet got on line they started by saying "Every day when we drive here to the Superdome we see..." and proceed to interview dirty, hungry, thirsty evacuees. My question is: " Why didn't you pack that SUV full of water and food so you could help the people you are interviewing?" If Geraldo can fly down from New York City and get to the Convention Center to cry on camera then why did he come empty handed? Oh, the humanity!

Eskimo: Thanks for the belly laugh: "Alive 2: Hey Kids, Grandma Tastes Like Chicken", a made-for-tv movie starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarrandon." (Sarondon, I think. :-)

Maybe co-starring roles for George Clooney (though his ego probably couldn't take it) and Janeanne Garofolo, direction credits to Steven Spielberg or Ron Howard ("I really believe that creative ideas will find their way to the surface"), with production kudos going to Kathleen Kennedy or Brian Grazer?

Man, oh, man. The possibilities are endless.

These guys are good at speaking lies into lies; what we've gotta do is continue to speak truth into lies. Whether we're "successful" or not isn't the point; just doing the right thing is.

Whoops: Sarandon :-)

The one stark image from the Katrina flood that sticks in my mind is the viseo of the 3 NOLA cops pushing shopping carts through a local walmart and loadinhg up on looted goods alomgside all the other looters in the store.....or the video of the old lady that was forcibly removed from her home by 3 machine gun toting FEMA goons.

It made it starkley clear that NOLA is probably the most politically corrupt place in North America.

Thank you once again backhoe.

IMHO, your compilations are a great service and could become an important part of the legacy of the major events they cover.

IIRC, one of the moments when I knew there was major bs being touted was Geraldo at the Superdome, wailing about the injustice and inhumanity when a couple of newly arrived Nation Guardsmen wandered into view with brooms. They were sweeping up the trash on the sidewalk. It certainly looked as if trashpiles from all the food and provisions was the most immediate problem they could find.

I can't believe Naggin was re-elected Mayor. NOLA deserves what it gets. Envirowackos have caused more damage than they have prevented in many places. Millions for the levees was spent on a fountain, for mardi gras, and other things rather than the levees, then Bush gets blamed. The tv viewers have seen how the media mis reported the damage, deaths, crime etc, but will not believe these same reporters misreport Iraq. If Anderson Cooper is there, its contrived. NBC rigged a truck explosion yrs ago, Rather faked a memo, NBC had a canoer in 6 in. of water.
Breaking news: Ken Lay guilty of all charges and going to jail. Scott Bisson better start shaking in his boots re Income Trusts, as well as others, the SEC in the US gets its man. Will liberals go to jail, or would that be considered being Bush-like.