Posted on 01/16/2006 11:44:49 AM PST by blam
Many Gulf Coast Towns Feel Neglected
Monday January 16, 2006 6:32 PM
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Associated Press Writer
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Nicki Henderson has had plenty of reasons to be angry since Hurricane Katrina destroyed her Biloxi home, but it was a simple news item about dislocated dolphins that really made her blood boil.
Henderson lost her temper when she logged on to her computer and spotted this headline: ``New Orleans Dolphins Find New Home.'' She knew the dolphins actually came from a hurricane-ravaged marine park in Gulfport, not New Orleans.
The headline writer's error reinforced her belief - shared by many on Mississippi's Gulf Coast - that New Orleans has gotten a disproportionate share of the news coverage and the nation's attention in the aftermath of the storm, now more than four months gone.
There is a growing sense the catastrophic damage along Mississippi's 70-mile stretch of coastline is being treated as a mere footnote to the story in New Orleans, which was ravaged by flooding.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I'm still going daily to feed the abandoned dogs down at the FEMA truck park. Abandoned dogs everywhere in Mobile, still.
Unfortunally, I see at least one splattered over the road way every day.
"...New Orleans has gotten a disproportionate share of the news coverage and the nation's attention in the aftermath of the storm..."
quite an understatement!
Having been born in Gulfport and lived in Biloxi I do get a little tired of New Orleans getting all the news coverage. My sister and I are planning on heading down to Biloxi for vacation this summer so we can put our money toward helping the rebuilding effort. Biloxi is and always will be in my heart.
Same as Waco getting all the bad publicity over Koresh when it was really near Mt. Carmel. Waco was merely only town around large enough to house and feed the moronic media. Now the incident is known as "Waco".
Damn! I like dogs too.
You Need to accept more refugee's. Jesse say's so.
Hah, Drive around Charlotte County ONEPOINTFIVE years later.
It was Waco's idiot newspaper that revved up the story on Koresh and stirred the pot that the new Rino/Clinton mafia couldn't ignore as an easy chance to look tough against religious sects. The result was 80 barbequed Texans, 20 of them children. Waco deserves its black eye.
Mississippi ping
there is no doubt the media has made NOLA seem the primary disaster. In part this is simply a function of what can be easily shown: a flooded metropolis, versus a shot of the devastated first few blocks of any part of MS gc. There is no way to convery the scale of the damage on the coast, besides doing a 30 minute pan from a helo going full speed.
Secondly, of course, the media loves human tragedy and the political potential, but more than anything the average couch potato can grasp that new orleans flooded.
Yes. I just sent this article to my local paper. Shame that article has to come from UK, and not our own reporters!
It looks like it did come from our reporters.... it's credited to the AP, and is on the AP wire:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060116/ap_on_re_us/katrina_invisible_coast
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