WSDU just criticized MSM coverage!

[intheflow]

They can't believe that the MSM is in such denial!


Female anchor: "Are they seeing what we're seeing?"

Here's what some DUers are seeing: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4507781

[jsamuel]

1. neither can I

Iraq, the economy, the environment are one thing.

BUT THERE IS A MAJOR DISASTER IN A MAJOR US CITY! MIGHT AS WELL HAVE A SMALL NUKE GO OFF AS FAR AS DAMAGE AND LIVES ARE CONCERNED!

The MSM must be incompetent or just uncaring.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Which things in particular are they talking about?

[Clark2008]

3. Yeah, what didn't they see that the other people saw

I hate vague DU posts. :(

[intheflow]

6. Try this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4507781

[intheflow]

4. Water rising, martial law, levy breaks, rescues,

water flooding around the Superdome where streets were dry yesterday, dead bodies floating through the streets, no phone coverage at all in an area code, etc., etc., etc.

:cry:

[NYC]

15. Do you know how well cell phones are working?

I'm having trouble finding out what is going on.

[intheflow]

16. I hear coverage is sporatic.

Cell towers down. Emergency workers even having trouble communicating.

[rman]

20. power outages, storm damage to antennae

I would not expect the cell phone network to be fully operational.

[deutsey]

5. Yes, I'm not seeing either local or MSM reports. Please give some details

[intheflow]

8. Try this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4507781

[KeepItReal]

7. That others are saying that New Orleans didn't get hit as bad

...as it could have.

She (WDSU host) said things there are getting steadily worse and it it much worse than imagined.

[Junkdrawer]

9. Told ya - I said this yesterday while the MSM said "Not bad"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4498515&mesg_id=4498557

[Strelnikov_]

10. Me Either. Confirms What Most Of US Thought About The MSM

[cry baby]

11. Corporate media doesn't think the general populace can take

bad news. They have been treating us like babies for a long time now.

[jsamuel]

12. they sure didn't play 9/11 down, all like "10,000 people could die"

[cry baby]

19. True that, but since then we have been babied.

And thank goodness they were wrong about those numbers!!!!

[tom_paine]

22. That was because such ASSISTED Fearless Fuhrer

whereas decreasing the amount of damage, like playing that phony Saddam-statue-toppling psy-op also ASSISTS Der Fuhrer.

Whichever helps the cause of Der Fuhrer, is which side will get played. That has become firghteningly axiomatic since Fuhrer seized the nation in 2000.

If it helps their cause, then it's what will be done.

One of the things I dislike about living under Totalitarianism is it's predictablility.

And all things serve Der Fuhrer. When they want us to panic again, they'll let us know (and so will every MSM TV and radio station)

[rman]

17. There are greater interests at stake

If word would get out about just how bad things are in NO, public opinion would force the government to put much more effort -and money- into rescue and reconstruction.

[cry baby]

21. And we the people might find out that this administration cut $71 mil

in readiness money for disasters.

[rman]

23. and send half the NG elsewhere, to do things they weren't intended to do

[cry baby]

24. Shhhh, someone might find out the truth!

[markus]

13. All the pretty blonde white people are in hotels in Texas

Would the MSM have carred if 3,000 people died in the Ninth Ward on 9/11? Would we have gone to war for them?

To me, this is bigger than 9-11. An entire major American city is decimated. If the backflooding continues, the entire city will be flooded. At least half a million people will be made refugees.

You don't like that view. Fine. Fuck you. I don't care.

I expect the federal government to spend every bit as much to save my native city as they spent on the war in Iraq, if that's what it takes.

[mcscajun]

14. They see it, they just Don't Get It.

It's water, they've seen it before in other places. They just do not understand New Orleans' unique situation.

They're focusing on the fact that it didn't get hit as badly as it could have.

They're focusing on places, that are hard-hit, but that are frankly, easier to get on-the-ground stories from...in short...Business-as-usual.

[ohio_liberal]

18. WDSU has done a remarkable job

:thumbsup:

[fishwax]

25. The WWL Katrina offers insight into what's happening on the ground

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html