[Tolik]

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[rightinthemiddle]

VDH can't be a Democrat, can he?

[MizSterious]

Ah, the column on Katrina I'd been hoping someone would write! Truly a gem. Thanks, Tolik.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Remember the report about the shark sighted swimming down Bourbon Street? That was ridiculous right away.

[drt1]

The breathless, hyperbole driven reporting on this disaster has been nauseating. From the tone, one would think the MSM wanted the water to be lethal to the touch, hundreds of bodies to be found in the Superdome, months to remove the water, etc. as a means of enlarging the already large tragedy. Fortunately for us they are wrong, just as they are wrong about the real situation in Iraq.

[rightinthemiddle]

Thank for the pinger...you were on it early today!

[JasonC]

That's gotta leave a mark...

[yoe]

***”Let ghoulish CNN file suit against the government to film all the bloated corpses it can find. Let a pontificating PBS "NewsHour" conduct more televised roundtables with grim-faced elites searching out purported national racism. But few any longer trust a frenzied media whose reporters and commentators continually prove as incompetent as they are disingenuous.”***

I was subjected to another and another “reporter” yesterday bent into the wind ad nausea, showing we simple viewers how strong the Ophelia storm was becoming. Enough! Truly mind numbing reporting. The real story of New Orleans demise began a long time ago (natural flow of the Mississippi River).........excellent article except for the inclusion of Global Warming. Start changing the natural flow of any river, stream, wash, and eventually you will have trouble.

”If the building isn’t burning there is nothing to report” same for “if the races get along there is nothing to report…”

[kabar]

But New Orleans also confirmed how a 24/7, hyper media create and then deflate controversies of the day, from the Aruba embarrassment to Cindy Sheehan's circus.

This is what the media has become, regardless of the subject. This "the sky is falling," hysterical journalism has created a grotesque dynamic of its own. The victim is truth. Unfortuntately, no one is holding the MSM accountable since they police themselves.

[wayoverontheright]

Our media has become the command structure for the fifth-column within. Do we need any more evidence that they are inextricably aligned with our enemies?

Is there a qualitative distinction between the jihadis who attack our buildings and kill our innocents and those who, be it with a pen or a microphone, daily attempt to tear down our culture, our philosophical and political underpinnings, and those who would defend us?

[kellynla]

The Lefties at ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN,MSNBC,NYT,LAT et al have shown they have about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine.
Point, Game, Set, Match.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks! Bump for Lunchbreak read-through. :)

[megatherium]

The death toll won't be 10,000 but it will probably be over 1000. That is significant, and it will have lasting political repercussions, regardless of the media's talent for exploitation and sensationalism.

But the bigger significance of what has happened is that a major American city has been heavily damaged. Hundreds of thousands of structures; $200 billion property damage. A disaster of this magnitude hasn't happened in living memory in this country. It compares with the kind of damage a major earthquake would cause (another disaster that we are woefully unprepared for).

[Semper Paratus]

Another vanishing quaqmire.

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[Cuttnhorse]

"What we did endure instead were slick but poorly educated journalists, worried not about truth but about preempting their rivals with an ever more hysterical story, all in a fuzzy context of political correctness about race, the environment and the war."

Hanson is so right on this and I can't repeat it often enough: the slick journalists are just not the brightest people out there. While going through university, I lived next door to a house full of "J" students and was always impressed by what a bunch of lazy slackers they were. They complained constantly about having to take the most basic introductory science courses and worried non stop about how to arrange their classes so they could have Fridays free for skiing.
They were lazy, whiners, wimps and not very bright.