BATON ROUGE, La. — Maj. Ed Bush recalled how he stood in the bed of a pickup truck in the days after Hurricane Katrina, struggling to help the crowd outside the Louisiana Superdome separate fact from fiction. Armed only with a megaphone and scant information, he might have been shouting into, well, a hurricane.
The National Guard spokesman's accounts about rescue efforts, water supplies and first aid all but disappeared amid the roar of a 24-hour rumor mill at New Orleans' main evacuation shelter. Then a frenzied media recycled and amplified many of the unverified reports.
"It just morphed into this mythical place where the most unthinkable deeds were being done," Bush said Monday of the Superdome.
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[sarcasm]Huh, imagine that. The news was "inaccurate" on it's reporting. How out of place is that? -Ed[/sarcasm] -Ed
Posted by Muddy at September 27, 2005 10:30 AMThe media portraying blacks in a negative light? Sensationalizing accounts of horrible deeds? Whats shocking about any of this?
Posted by: mooseboy84 at September 29, 2005 09:52 PMThe news need to lie, that's the only way they can attract audience in this crazy world.
They need to make it bigger juicier. Lot's of emotion and no effort of reflection needed.
That's how your country ended up in Iraq.