[MizSterious]

Fox had it's brilliant moments, and then there was Shep assuring (over and over) everyone that New Orleans had "dodged the bullet"--even while water was rising in the streets out of his view. And I won't even get into the entire Geraldo fiasco.

[rightinthemiddle]

What role did the MEDIA have in the Katrina disaster? Will they be held accountable?

[FreedomPoster]

Did you see him about 3-4 days in? After watching one report, my wife said "he looks totally stressed out, Fox needs to get him out of there for a while, he's shell-shocked."

She was right.

[yoe]

Both Shep and Geraldo but mostly the latter became so emotionally envolved and I think Shep was totally exausted. Those people on the bridge with him were there because they had been told busses would be waiting - a lie by the police in New Orleans proper just to get them out of downtown.

We questioned why we couldn't cross the bridge anyway, especially as there was little traffic on the 6-lane highway. They responded that the West Bank was not going to become New Orleans and there would be no Superdomes intheir City. These were code words for if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River and you were not getting out of New Orleans."

These are the words of a EMT trainee. His father is a professor in the Afro-American Studies Department at UMass, Amherst. Why Shep did not interview these people quietly I'll never know, he lost a golden opportunity for some interesting insight to New Orleans thinking.