I’m stunned by the news in New Orleans and frankly, I think what I’ve heard on the national news is downplaying the tragedy not understanding the sheer enormity of what is happening. This isn’t a storm story with anecdotal stories of bad things happening, but an unfolding disaster still in New Orleans. Either tonight or tomorrow I’ll be back to local news–which has several fascinating stories going on….
As for the looting fetish on the tv news–given the city is continuing to be submerged, who the hell cares? A city in a developed nation is being wiped out. Wiped out.
If you want to worry about violence, think about the problems in refugee camps and temporary housing for all of these people for the next 3-4 months the Mayor of New Orleans has suggested is the period before people can come back (and that doesn’t include rebuilding housing).
i just made pretty much the same point on diatriber.com.
the fact the our excuse of a president wasn’t on national tv telling us how he was “on it” speaks volumes. i figured a good old boy like haley barbour would at least get this disaster that kind of attention.
I just read the recently updated Chicago Tribune page, and I almost burst out crying. I don’t even care about politics right now.