A Year Of Katrina: Remembering Meserve's Eye-Opening, Heart-Wrenching Repo

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

"We are sometimes wacky thrill seekers. But when you stand in the dark, and you hear people yelling for help and no one can get to them, it's a totally different experience."

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, some television reports indicated that New Orleans had dodged a bullet. Information about the levee breaches was almost non-existent. But viewers who heard correspondent Jeanne Meserve's report on CNN knew something terrible was unfolding.

"It's been horrible," Meserve told viewers of NewsNight on Aug. 29, 2005. "You can hear people yelling for help. You can hear the dogs yelping, all of them stranded, all of them hoping someone will come."

One viewer called Meserve's beeper "the riveting, heart-wrenching phone report I've ever heard on televsion news." The next day, NewsNight anchor Aaron Brown said he had received over 600 e-mails praising Meserve's report. And David Carr said she offered "a prescient look into the week that was to come."

Meserve said she received many e-mails about the report, too. "It appears to have been the first time many people have heard what was happening and understood what was happening," she says.

[applegrove]

1. Oh that was just awful. I cannot even watch the anniversary stuff. Meserve

did good. So many reporters did more than their jobs. But sometimes you just don't want to go back there. I re-heard the stuff about the dogs and that was enough for me.

The good news is that that neocon thing..where they try to teach lack of empathy... they've tried that in Ontario too.... it never works. Real adults become pretty disgusted very soon. I hope they take it out of their "playbook". Irrigardless. I hope they pack up their tents and disolve the whole movement.

Why they refused academic testing of their theories before they got power... well that is another lesson too.

Reeks.