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Hey Randy You are going to get WET
Thanks for the update Murf. It bugs me how the media is focusing on New Orleans when 3 states got smoked bad. But the media has to feed the democrat political pandering machine...
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Hey Randy You are going to get WET
You should not stereotype all media coverage. I have found all sorts of coverage on all sorts of places damaged by Katrina, its been very extensive. As an aside: cheap shots at various political parties do not add materially to the debate and often serve to homogenise the audience of the discussion board, personally I find this very tedious. Anyway back to the topic: New Orleans got most of the mainstream coverage for some very practical reasons, some of which are:
1) Its a location most people could place on a map, many US folk have memories of New Orleans, how many of us have memories of Picayune? Of course that doesn't diminish the extent of the tragedy there but the reality is most of us know New Orleans.
2) The Geography of the city and the failure of the levees make the disaster in part a man-made tragedy, from a purely weather orientated perspective there is not much more to Gulfport other than "Katrina destroyed all - mankind had little say in it"
3) The human face of the catastrophie take on all sorts of forms in New Orleans, folk who lost their houses, folk who looted, folk who survived days in attics, folk who made the now eerily accurate predictions of flooding, folk who were stranded by authorities. For the rest of the Delta there was not as much depth to the story.
In short the reason that mainstream press focuses on New Orleans is because that is where the mainstream stories are richer and make for better press. Afterall these folks make their money selling information.
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Hey Randy You are going to get WET
Ann, you are, of course, right.
It does not change the facts. I realize that the media is in the business of 'selling' us information, more viewers mean more commercial sponsors.
My point was that where the media concentrates, so does everyone else.
One of the towns we went into, Gulf Shores, AL had literally nothing left, not one public vehicle or building left useable, the Fire Hall is standing, but just, and everybody is camping in it, no municipal records, nothing, not even one single house was left standing.
There is no real aid arriving either, trucks roll across I-10 towards Mobile, but don't turn south to them. Celebrities send truckloads of donations, but not to them.
The sad part is I have seen more done, and faster, for foriegn countries than is being done down there.
Best of luck (to them).
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Murf, thank you for summing up my thoughts. Ann deftly diverted my political venting.
With all the coverage of NEw Orleans, the other areas are not getting as much help as they need. The sceens I have found from the other areas are incredibly disturbing. It's unfathonable how entire cities have been wiped clean off the map.
It doesn't play as well as NEw Orleans on national TV. But they need just as much help as New Orleans.
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I forgot to add, the New Orleans folks have help in moving to other states and starting over at designated shelters. I haven't heard of any of that for Mississippi, Alabama or other areas in Louisiana. The ones that made it to Iowa from Mississippi or Alabama did it themselves. The ones from Louisiana had a chartered jet.
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