New Orleans Recovers Around the Clock
How many flippin' journalism awards are there now? You know all of those awards that the media bestows upon themselves to validate their existence. It just seems that they have invented enough awards so that each and everyone gets one. It's like the Special Olympics. More to the point, the Media issuing Journalism awards is paramount to the Ku Klux Klan giving each of their locals a humanitarian open-mindedness award.
All of the awards recently seem to be going to people and publications for their reporting of the Katrina Clusterfuck. They all got it wrong! Every last one of them and now they are awarding each other to make sure we realize how right they got it.
The African American population of the City of New Orleans was 55%. How did every award winning news organization miss the chance to photograph or interview a single non-black resident of the City. Spike Lee never made a claim of being unbiased before he had to drive to the edge of the earth before finding two girls drunk and trashy enough to play the role of poor white trash in his epic that has been the closest anyone has gotten to responsible journalism since August 29, 2005.
On the anniversary of the storm every local network pre-empted all programming so that they could wallow in a collage of their poorly reported and wholly innaccurate portrayal of the storm as it unfolded. As they did so, I watched on my one channel as every reporter took turns telling stories.
Telling stories should not and cannot be confused with reporting. Particularly since each of them just reported something that they heard one of their colleagues say. Most notable is "the official line" from the Army Corps of Engineers and the White House, "work continues around the clock on the Canals breached by Katrina."
Every so called reporter, the local reporters all repeated the line over and over and over. I've heard rumors from people in St Bernard that have said that they think that work goes on at night along the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet because there are bright lights in the marsh that can be seen from the Green Monster. But I can attest that the "around the clock" work on the 17th Street Canal ends at dusk, Monday through Friday. No work at night, no work on the weekends and no work when it rains(everyday at about 3pm). It has been this way since before the Corps first bullshit deadline of June 15th.
WWL-TV has a webcam at the construction site called Eye on Floodgates. It must be the catchy name that wins those awards since not a single one of their so-called reporters have ever looked at the camera at night. Perhaps all of those crack investigative journalists work floodgate construction hours of 9-5 M-F weather permitting.
All of the awards recently seem to be going to people and publications for their reporting of the Katrina Clusterfuck. They all got it wrong! Every last one of them and now they are awarding each other to make sure we realize how right they got it.
The African American population of the City of New Orleans was 55%. How did every award winning news organization miss the chance to photograph or interview a single non-black resident of the City. Spike Lee never made a claim of being unbiased before he had to drive to the edge of the earth before finding two girls drunk and trashy enough to play the role of poor white trash in his epic that has been the closest anyone has gotten to responsible journalism since August 29, 2005.
On the anniversary of the storm every local network pre-empted all programming so that they could wallow in a collage of their poorly reported and wholly innaccurate portrayal of the storm as it unfolded. As they did so, I watched on my one channel as every reporter took turns telling stories.
Telling stories should not and cannot be confused with reporting. Particularly since each of them just reported something that they heard one of their colleagues say. Most notable is "the official line" from the Army Corps of Engineers and the White House, "work continues around the clock on the Canals breached by Katrina."
Every so called reporter, the local reporters all repeated the line over and over and over. I've heard rumors from people in St Bernard that have said that they think that work goes on at night along the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet because there are bright lights in the marsh that can be seen from the Green Monster. But I can attest that the "around the clock" work on the 17th Street Canal ends at dusk, Monday through Friday. No work at night, no work on the weekends and no work when it rains(everyday at about 3pm). It has been this way since before the Corps first bullshit deadline of June 15th.
WWL-TV has a webcam at the construction site called Eye on Floodgates. It must be the catchy name that wins those awards since not a single one of their so-called reporters have ever looked at the camera at night. Perhaps all of those crack investigative journalists work floodgate construction hours of 9-5 M-F weather permitting.
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