Media Lied, People Died
Posted by Moonage on 14 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: Katrina, The Media
Michael Fumento has written an article I think is a MUST READ!
The quips are great:
- In the wake of Hurricane Katrina two sports were all the rage in New Orleans. One was the blame game, attributing all local and state incompetence to the feds. The other was inventing and spreading stories of murder and mayhem — killings, rapes, firing at rescuers, bodies stacked like cordwood.
- Editor & Publisher headlined an article, "Mortuary Director Tells Local Paper 40,000 Could Be Lost in Hurricane," while the French paper Liberation ran a detailed report on 1,200 people drowning in a single school.
- CNN claimed snipers were taking potshots at helicopters trying to evacuate patients from hospitals, while separately CNN host Paula Zahn breathlessly spoke of "reports" of "bands of rapists, going block to block."
- To be fair and balanced, we note that Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera claimed from the scene that "Yesterday the sun set on a scene of terror, chaos, confusion, anarchy, violence, rapes, murders, dead babies, dead people."
- Oprah Winfrey’s special report from New Orleanswas wall-to-wall hysteria. Mayor Ray Nagin told her "They havepeople standing out there, havebeen in that frickin’ Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."
- Police Chief Eddie Compass (since resigned) added that "little babies [are] getting raped."
- Winfrey herself, knowing how trusting (or gullible) her audience is, told them that in the Superdome "gangs banded together and had more ammunition, at times, than the police."
It just gets better and better. He sums up everything I’ve wanted to say perfectly.
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