Almost all of the coverage in New Orleans is about the condition of the people in the Super Dome and then later the New Orleans Convention Center where large groups of people were “discovered” and found to present a good video target for TV transmission into our homes.
Without news coverage how will FEMA know there’s a problem? They became aware of the New Orleans Convention Center debacle only after it was reported on the news as a result of people from the Convention Center alerting the news media. No one in their home can get to a reporter.
Michael Chertoff, Fema Head Brown and President Bush have demonstrated they are unable to cope with or understand where the emergencies lie. It is up to the NEWS MEDIA to do so.
Almost no reporting is done of the thousands of people, living and dead who cannot leave their neighborhoods. Remember 80% of New Orleans is under water. A lot of people live in neighborhoods that have no ready access to the superdome or convention center.
Yesterday (Friday at about 4pm) a helicopter rescue pilot told George Bush who claims to be, “The President of the United States,” that the rescue by helicopter of citizens trappped in their homes “IS NEVER ENDING”.
That means they have not even cracked the surface of those people who do not make attractive video targets from above. They are not worthy of saving, their commercial TV value is less than those who are in groups.
Why isn’t anybody doing anything about this? It’s because it’s not dramatic to show one person on a roof. It’s more interesting to show 20.000 outside the Super Shit Dome where the shit and urine have casued the people to wait outside.
Many of these people in neighborhoods will die.
Then there’s the Gulf Coast. Who knows what’s really gone on in these citiies. There is no reporting in depth.
The new media is starting to get the message from their corporate owners to “cool it”.
We are going to be fed more sedative laced videos of happy faced announcers talking about “progress” while the people in the neighborhoods are forgotten.
