"US TV swings to hurricane outrage"

[AussieDave]

From the Courier-Mail in Brisbane Australia:

"IN the emotional aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, US television's often deferential treatment of government officials has been replaced by fiercely combative interviews and scathing commentary.

As the scale of carnage became clear and the Government was seen as tardy in its response, TV news anchors and reporters dropped their dispassionate reserve in favour of stinging comments straight from the heart.

"We talk to mothers holding babies, some of these babies three, four, five-months-old, living in horrible conditions," the usually urbane CNN reporter Anderson Cooper told viewers from New Orleans last week.

"These people are being forced to live like animals. People need to see what it's really like here. People are dying at the convention centre, and there's no one coming to get them," the anguished journalist said as US officials insisted that the rescue operation was in hand."

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16510801%255E1702,00.html


Could this be the media finally awakening from its collective coma and going after the Busheviks ?? Did it have to take a disaster like Katrina to finally open people's eyes ??

[spuddonna]

1. Good God, I hope so...

:( I'm not hoping my breath for the MSM though...

[Usrename]

2. Not. They haven't a clue. It's all an exercise in balancing their

hate mail to show their balanced. It's crazy.

[Melodybe]

3. I wouldn't trust the corporate media at all

however Anderson Copper has gained some of my respect over the last week.

I hope he decides to be a real journalist from here on out.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Powerful Article on US Media growing some Backbone

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4640022

[wli]

5. No, they're spinning this, too.

They're trying to redirect blame to the New Orleans and Louisiana local govt.

[fooj]

6. Tomorrow is ACCOUNTABILITY DAY!

Call for the immediate resignation of the current administration. We are demanding accountability and calling our elected representatives starting 8 am tomorrow morning (Tues 9-6) in Washington D. C. and asking them to do their jobs by representing the voices of the people. If they do not honor their obligation to their constituents, we will hold them accountable, as well.

Please let the people know that tomorrow is ACCOUNTABILITY DAY!

Peace.:patriot:

[MadeinOhio]

7. Remember this meme: Blacks don't matter to Big Oil.

Only Big Oil matters to Big Oil.:grr: :grr:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Bush Loves Black Oil, not Black People

Bush Loves Black Oil, not Black People

[MadeinOhio]

9. Exactly exactly....

[Berry Cool]

10. I guess some of you guys

didn't watch Olbermann last night...

He is on a rampage and he's not going to be put off it too easily.

He's mad as hell...and what's more, his attitude toward the administration is hardly anything new.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Keith was GREAT last night!

He came out smokin'!