Mississippi vs Louisiana coverage in the Press (Katrina)

[lateo]

Has anyone heard of the rampant looting that went on in Mississippi? Or that the evacuation was bungled and lots of people died...in Mississippi?

[RockaFowler]

1. Only from DU

That's the problem the MSM is toing the Haley Barbour line

[QC]

2. Mississippi has been forgotten, for the most part.

If all one knew about the aftermath of Katrina was what shows up on the TV, one would think that only New Orleans had been hit.

[Karenina]

3. I can only imagine

that entire towns were wiped out. NO PRESS, NO PICTURES, NO FOLLOW-UP.
Poor people eking out their existence on the coastline, Vietnamese, Mexican, black and white. NOT A PEEP. It's DISGUSTING.

[lateo]

6. Remember when Anderson Cooper went off on Landrieu?

He was on the coast of Mississippi and he said near him was a rat eating the corpse of someone who died during the hurricane. He was livid.

[Gildor Inglorion]

4. Well, who cares about Mississippi anyway? Us Mississippians, I guess...

Even if Katrina had caused NO damage at all in Louisiana or along the MS Gulf Coast, the inland damage alone in MS would still be one of the biggest disasters in American history. I live one county north of the coast, and the destruction is (as they say) indescribable. Little enough help has arrived here (not glamorous enough?), and when (God forbid!) Rita hits Texas, all attention and assistance will shift in that direction, focused like a laser on B*shit's "home state" where the relief efforts will be astonishing, competent, and overwhelming.

[lateo]

5. Hey...

I'm originally from Laurel, MS. So, I have been in touch with some of my friends there and it would seem that the MSM is ignoring how bad Haley and MEMA screwed up.

[dusty64]

7. And I'm sure

that is an oversight. :sarcasm:

[pitohui]

8. yes i sure did

i was in mississippi for landfall, i heard plenty of horror stories

the evac went fine, & traffic flowed smoothly, however, more died in storm surge than they have been able to count for now, reason, ppl whose homes stood agn. camille have been utterly swept away

as far as looting, there were many horror stories from ppl shooting ea. other over gas in jackson to looters actually jacking ppl's generators in biloxi at gunpoint

it didn't play in the mass media because the media is lazy, why take two steps away from their hotel room in new orleans to report on mississippi issues

the lack of coverage of the disaster in mississippi is shameful

whole towns have been destroyed such as waveland, bay st. louis, long beach, pass christian

i don't even know if anyone who stayed behind in long beach survived, the remains of the well-to-do area have been placed behind a fence to contain the looting

ppl are looking for everything from coins from the slot machines to jewelry, i guess if the casinos are out of business & the ppl dead, they don't need coins or jewelry but it still seems disrespectful

[lateo]

9. It didn't play in the media because...

I bet these people in MS doing the crime were white.

[stevekatz]

10. yea right

Yea cause there are no blacks on the coast in Mississippi, right?

I live in Gulfport, I've spent the last 3 weeks helping people all along the coast (I'm in the military). We have been ignored by the MSM, and the "offical" body count here is a joke and everyone knows it.

[pitohui]

11. thanks for yr efforts steve

i know there are many ppl i will never see agn from that area, a good friend lost his home in bay st. louis such that there is not one stick on another stick & this was no shack, it was a huge beautiful well-built home, it is sickening, ppl from all walks of life have been hard hit on the coast

[lateo]

12. I'm not saying that at all.

Certainly there are black people living on the Gulf Coast. I grew up near there and I'm well aware of it.