"You get so hung up as a reporter on what the big picture is that you use generalizations that become untrue," McBride said.
Pure crap. The MSM doesn't give a rat's a$$ about big pictures or they'd be showing us the Big Picture in Iraq.
Or Afghanistan. Or NOLA (because the Big Picture there would show that the dems, the Great Society and LBJ are far more culpable for what happened in Katrina than the GOP, an Ownership Society and GWB.
The MSM delights in finding offbeat, oddball, quisling aspects of a story (true or not) and then presenting them as the Big Picture That Only People Like Us Can See. And when it turns out that picture is a forgery or a fraud, they blame their circumstances...never their bad judgement.
The MSM believes anything worth doing is worth overdoing, and for Katrina they all jumped overboard. Now they're embarrassed to find people saying they're all wet. Duh.
Big Picture? Don't trust the MSM. Ever.
WestTexasWend:
Very well said. The great majority of the MSM are defacto representives of the DNC. Many show up for work and with their coffee tear off DNC talking points from their fax machines. That's where they get the "news". ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, PBS, and many, many newspapers are dedicated not to the truth, but to their socialist agenda.
"A week after the floodwaters poured into the city, an Arkansas National Guardsman told The Times-Picayune of New Orleans that soldiers had discovered 30 to 40 bodies inside a freezer in the convention center's food area. Guardsman Mikel Brooks told the newspaper that some of the dead appeared to have met violent ends, including "a 7-year-old with her throat cut."
When the convention center was swept, however, no such pile of bodies was found.
Lt. Col. Jacques Thibodeaux of the Louisiana National Guard said reports of violence at the Superdome and the convention center were overblown. He was head of security at the Superdome and led the 1,000 military police and infantrymen who went in to secure the center on Sept. 2.
"The incidents were highly exaggerated" _ the result of fear and hopelessness, he said. "For the amount of the people in the situation, it was a very stable environment."
Thibodeaux said his guard unit received no reports of rape."
What do you think the odds are of finding the Arkansas National Guardsman and hearing what he has to say? The whole story, from first to last (this) makes me think there's something rotten in Denmark.