LA Times: Everything was under control, problems just "rumors"

[GunGoBoom]

The Superdome has a basement??

Is it like the basement of the Alamo?

LMBO! Isn't that where Pee Wee's bike was stashed?

 

[NCP24]

News will always be edited to reflect the MOST tragedy, suffering and hardships they can glean from a 30 second snip and sound-bite. Take one or two (or a few score) instances and televise them over and over, watch the Mayor, Chief of Police and Governor say and do stupid things over and over, listen to the Presidental sound-bite of the day (always chosen to reflect his best moment)... fit it all in 30 - 45 - 60 second segments... fade...

Sell advertising.

Yep. That's the daily news.

Your absolutely right and just think about the entire coverge they have. Could all these people be fabricating stories and will all of them recant their statements?

The truth? What's that?

Exactly and how do you measure truth in civil court- by the preponderance of the evidence. In most cases- court is about 90% theatrics and 10% procedure/law, that doesn’t leave much room for truth.

 

[Borachon]

Did anyone else that comes to THR..other than me...listen to scanner traffic from New Orleans in the time after the hurricane?


Before I say anything, I'd like to know if anyone else heard some of the same things I did.

 

[GunGoBoom]

tell us, please...

 

[44Special]

Revisionist history

I think this may be typical revisionist history. That is, it now errs too far in the other direction in underestimating the problem. There were reasons so many of the New Orleans Police Department deserted their posts. Fear was a big one, and they didn't have the benefit of listening to the TV reports that are now being said to be exaggerated. Yes, I've heard all about how the NA Police Department is corrupt. Don't know if it is true or not, but I've been intimately acquainted with some police departments that were, and one thing I did learn is that even policemen with badly warped ethics, in tough towns, are typically pretty brave folks. They didn't run for nothing.
I also know an editor on a major southern newspaper who told me his reporter, inserted by helicopter, begged after a few hours to be extracted at all costs. He was sure he would be slain if he were not. I have also known many of the reporters who take this kind of assignments. They are also brave men and women, going usually unarmed into situations I wouldn't approach without something belt-fed.

 

[jashobeam]

Borachon, please tell what you heard.

If you have a first hand account, please share it with the rest of us.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Did anyone else that comes to THR..other than me...listen to scanner traffic from New Orleans in the time after the hurricane?

In about two hours total of scanner listening, I heard the following incidents over the scanner reporting events in New Orleans:

1) That a huge tsunami was washing away the town with a 10' wall of water.

2) That they had stopped a stolen car with a gunshot victim inside it. The man had been shot in the leg

I heard the following incidents from Baton Rouge police:

1) That there was minor looting going on at the Wal-Mart and Academy Sports stores there

Radio traffic is just as susceptible to exaggeration and error as any other form of communication between human beings (as the tsunami report shows).