Raped and Murdered Child In Superdome: What Other Lies Did The Media Tell?

8/27/06 | Doctor Raoul

[Doctor Raoul]

Since the media has planned an orgy of finger pointed for the anniversary of Katrina, let's make sure they get a finger in the eye they so richly deserve for their performance.

Here's a few I recall, and I'm sure there are more:

The media told us of a little girl who had been rapoed and then her throat slit in the Superdome.

Photo captions had white survivors foraging for supplies, while black people were captioned as looting.

Helicopters were being fired at, which led to a stand down till it became clear that it was untrue. All those lives lost during that interval are due to media neglagence and the blood of those victims is on the media's hands.

Please feel free to forward the results to local or national talk radio so their sorry reporting is not white washed.

[nctexan]

When I went to journalism school, reporting involved investigating and validating the accuracy of a story. Number one priority was to get the facts correct.... then word crafting and picture painting.

It seems that these Pulitzer champions in N.O. were doing no better than racing to publish the latest whispered rumors. That kind or 'reporting' is why the media has lost almost all respect.

[Right Wing Assault]

food & water/supplies=foraging

Food and water in stores that are even minimally flooded is usually a total loss/write-off due to contamination by possibly being splashed by water. Most health departments will not allow it to be sold. Even canned goods and bottled water since they may have germs on the outside. So, it is essentially trash that may be picked up by anyone. If you break into a store that is NOT flooded, it is looting.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Doc, here's the looting/finding one.

[cincinnati65]

The story I recall was that there was a jail break and the prisoners had taken over a hospital/retirement home with weapons looted from a local pawn shop.

[thegreatbeast]

Oh, the best has to be the poverty pimp who reported that after only a few days people had resorted to CANNIBALISM. That was a good one!

[Darnright]

When the hurricane was still out in the ocean, there was a live feed here on FR from a New Orleans tv station. The anchors had Ray Nagin in the studio.

I will never, ever forget the anchor asking him if there were plans to go into the poor areas and get people evacuated. His answer was telling.

I can't remember the exact words, but he basically shook his head, and said there was no way to evacuate the people. HE WAS ASKED why buses or cars couldn't be sent in, and he said, even if transportation was provided, the people would not go.

I guarantee that video tape has been destroyed by now.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Echo Chamber in the Superdome
A Louisiana National Guardsman explains how he dealt with false rumors being piped into Ground Zero of Hurricane Katrina

http://www.reason.com/links/links100405.shtml

[CajunConservative]

I agree. The hysteria has made the recovery worse because people believed the lies. The majority of people were simply trying to survive.

[The Worthless Miracle]

Well, they sure haven't wasted any time handing out the awards for journalistic excellence to themselves...

[syriacus]

Aaron Broussard's lies about phone calls from an elderly woman in a nursing home were not challenged by Tim Russert, even though it's likely that, in a subsequent show, Russert knew Broussard was lying.

A. Broussard started telling his story
And cried when the tale got real gory.
Russert, barely awake,
Was taken in by this fake
.... Yet, Tim STILL won't admit that he's sorry.

Aaron Broussard and Tim Russert: The Saga Continues (Lyin, Cryin & Caught!)

Russert could not pass up another opportunity to tar and feather the president.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Mr. Randall Robinson Founder of the wonderful and important TransAfrica, reporting that there was cannibalism taking place at the Super-Dome.

[hole_n_one]

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Katrina Misses New Orleans,
Heavily Damages Mississippi

By Joseph B. Treaster and Kate Zernike

NEW ORLEANS

Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast with devastating force at daybreak Monday, sparing New Orleans the catastrophic hit that had been feared but inundating parts of the city and heaping damage on neighboring Mississippi where it tossed boats, ripped away scores of roof tops and left many of the major coastal roadways impassable.

[aculeus]

Bump for the truth.

[Dilbert56]

Col. Thomas Beron, the National Guard commander of Task Force Orleans, arrived at the Superdome on Aug. 29 and took command of 400 soldiers. He told PM that when the Dome's main power failed around 5 am, "it became a hot, humid, miserable place. There was some pushing, people were irritable. There was one attempted rape that the New Orleans police stopped."

You mean everyone watching TV didn't know that the National Guard was in the Superdome with those people, with food and water?

[Recon Dad]

This is when my opinion of Shep Smith went south. He was a flaming idiot standing on a balcony in the Quarter reporting all the crap that was being put out.

[Pharmboy]

Aw geez...I remember that lying sumb*tch.

[Skooz]

bump

[syriacus]

HE WAS ASKED why buses or cars couldn't be sent in, and he said, even if transportation was provided, the people would not go.

Nagin is certainly NO Rudy Giuliani.

Nagin is only steadfast when he is defending himself. Like the time, shortly after Katrina, that he was encouraging people to return to New Orleans, even though a new storm, Rita, was forming out at sea.

~~Happy Days are Here Again~~

"Happy Days are here again,"
Said New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin.
"Yes, the water's down,
Come back into town.
Happy days are here again."

A storm named Rita's coming strong
Nagin fears the levees won't last long
He'll repeat his hymn
To folks he once made swim
"Don't blame me. I'm never wrong."

[I'm ALL Right!]

That was the greatest moment in the entire Katrina coverage. Hysterical!!!

[dixiechick2000]

"I guarantee that video tape has been destroyed by now."


It may be destroyed, but many of us saw it.
I was streaming WWL and watched that interview.