Maybe they should show those images next to this one:
And ask why people die along a highway because Nagin said they had no toilets on them, instead of tossing a pail on a bus and telling people to hit the road.
Posted on 09/03/2005 12:40:45 PM PDT by mdittmar
While pledging to exercise taste, television news executives said they won't shy away from showing graphic pictures of the grim aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
On Thursday, several outlets -- including NBC, Fox News and CNN -- showed video of people who had died not during the storm but in the days following the hurricane. They included pictures of two people covered in sheets who had passed away outside the convention center in downtown New Orleans, where tens of thousands of people waited for food and water. One, in a wheelchair, held a note with next-of-kin information.
At the same time, networks passed on showing the full picture of what had happened, particularly at the convention center. NBC News photojournalist Tony Zumbado captured video of the dead and dying that was so graphic that neither NBC News nor MSNBC would air it.
"I thought I'd seen it all, but I've never seen anything like this," Zumbado said on "NBC Nightly News." Zumbado told MSNBC anchor Alison Stewart that there were dead bodies everywhere, including two babies who had died of dehydration.
In a report earlier Thursday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith stood on Interstate 10 amid the devastation and, in one shot, showed the covered body of a man who was dead alongside the highway.
"Every story and every shot is different," Fox News executive John Stack said. "We all exercise both journalistic and good-taste judgment in situations like that, but it's a case-by-case basis."
CNN senior vp newsgathering Jack Womack said the network's decision to televise the images had depended on the context and the circumstances of the story.
"We try to look and be very respectful and careful about that," Womack said.
An ABC News report showed a body under a sheet in Mississippi.
"We're not shying away from it," ABC News senior vp Paul Slavin said. "I just don't think we've seen that much." He said that ABC News was being guided, among other things, by issues of taste.
In an interview Thursday morning, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said he saw six bodies in an hour on the streets of a Mississippi town when he went out with a rescue team. The body of one, bloated and disfigured, lay in the street.
"She's still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is and where her family is," Cooper said. He also saw a family of four -- a man, woman and two children -- who were drowned in their living room when their house was flooded.
"Their salt-and-pepper figurines that they had collected were sitting on the shelf untouched," Cooper said.
Cooper, who this year covered the south Asian tsunami in Sri Lanka, said the destruction looked comparable.
"It's amazingly similar, horrifyingly similar. The scene of whole villages gone is very much the same," Cooper said. "Gulfport, Bay St. Louis, Waveland -- it could have been Galle, Sri Lanka. But what makes it different is that this is the U.S. seeing bloated corpses out on the streets for days."
And while it's likely that TV would show more dead bodies before the coverage was out, at least one journalism ethics professor doesn't think it is necessary.
"I'm not sure I can tell you from a news perspective what additional information I get as a viewer from seeing a corpse," said Lee Wilkins, a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri. "These sort of pictures don't provide any additional information -- not any. Dead's dead."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
How is the graphic results of a hurricane different from the graphic results of a terrorist attack? [rhetorical of course]
Graphic coverage - ok - that is reality.
Slanted coverage - that's not ok - and that is a fact.
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http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
"Graphic coverage - ok - that is reality.
Slanted coverage - that's not ok - and that is a fact. "
That is it exactly, Cindy. There is no reason to conceal the truth but there is reason to not exaggerate or put a political spin on the story.
They only want graphic images that they can use against Bush.... graphic images of 9/11 would remind people of why we need to fight and not surrender.... graphic images of victims of Katrina can be used to smear the administration (notice there's barely been a whisper in any media source I have seen of the failures in primary responsibility of the DEMOCRATIC local and state officials).
The graphic pictures are supposed to say "see these dead people?...it's George Bush's fault because he is a murderer who doesn't care about black people"...
I've stopped watching it. I've been about as impressed as I'm gonna get for this "crisis." FOX News Channel has lost it and is out of control. That leaves me without a reliable news source other than Free Republic. Thank God for NASCAR, Diamondback baseball and football. Should have a pretty good, racism-free holiday weekend. All the Commie Bush-bashing has really wore me out.
9/11 pictures ENFORCE Bush.
Katrina pictures have the opposite effect.
MSM job is to weaken Bush.
Those Vietnamese probably are Americans. But bless them for letting those more in need go first.
This had nothing to do with needing food, it was all about EVIL.
Maybe they should show those images next to this one:
And ask why people die along a highway because Nagin said they had no toilets on them, instead of tossing a pail on a bus and telling people to hit the road.
Are they hiding tapes of the rape gangs?
"You're a hard man, Conager." "Its a hard land!" Wasn't that the line?
I'm not sure if they have citizenship yet or not but I think I remember Vietnamese fleeing the communists in a boatlift being relocated to Louisiana so they could fish.
They are sitting neatly in rows chatting with each other and waiting for everyone else to go first "so we don't get in the way."
Not only does it speak well of them it shows that being in America has great value and that they appreciate it even after a hurricane. It's a shame some of our native sons don't have that same appreciation.
Nagin worried about those buses not being a Greyhound or Trailways, and what did he get? Thousands upon thousands upon thousands wading in sewage.
Check this out for graphic:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html
The networks are engaging in pure Bush bashing. Let 'em squeal. With each report their credibility erodes further which, in turn, strengthens the conservative vision.
Caitlin
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