The press itself has once again become the news because of their abysmal job covering Katrina. The L.A. Times recently carried a story under the headline, Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy.
Rumors supplanted accurate information and media magnified the problem. Rapes, violence and estimates of the dead were wrong.
In a feeding frenzy of rumor, MSM reported as fact, everything they picked up that could conceivably cast the Bush Administration in a negative light. Unfortunately, this meant there were stories of hard work and dedication that didn't make the news. Here's one of them.
A busload of reporters on its way to New Orleans to cover the devastation from Katrina tragically collided with a freight train at an unmarked crossing in southern Louisiana. With most of the State Police and National Guard already deployed to New Orleans, responsibility for this emergency fell to State Police Auxiliary and volunteers. Power and communications were out in large areas of the state, and as a result a State Police Major was forced to wait for a verbal report on the accident when the ranking Police Auxiliary officer returned from the scene.
“OK, sit down and tell me about it. How bad?” said the Major.
“Sir, it was awful. The bus was crumpled up like a wad of waste paper. There were bodies strewn down the track for almost a mile. All of our ambulances spent the whole day just getting all the bodies to the morgue. We finally got ‘em all on slabs.”
“On slabs? My God! You mean there weren’t any left alive?”
“Well, some of ‘em said they were, but sir, these are reporters we’re talking about. You can’t believe them lying bastards.”
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