[Rhodes22-list] The Media, Mass Semi-Hysteria, and The Goodness of the Human Spirit (Political)

[Hank]

As an aside to the comments on the MSM, did anyone watch Bush's speech from
NO a couple of weeks ago. I watched it on CBS and what I remember most was
that after the speech, CBS cut to a reporter in the Astrodome in Houston and
began to ask evacuees what they thought of the speech. It was very obvious
that he was wording the questions to try a get a negative response.
Unfortunately for him, pretty much everyone had a positive comment on the
president's speech. It was really rather humorous the lengths he would go to
to try and get a bad comment. Eventually, someone figured out what he was
doing and started saying bad stuff just so she could stay on camera, but her
comments didn't make a whole lot of sense. So much for an impartial media!
 Hank

 On 9/26/05, Rik Sandberg <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> herb,
>
> Yes, I'm sure the media will find the truth of the situation a bit bland
> to support their ratings. Of course having to admit they were doing
> their best to make an admitedly bad situation look even worse will
> surely be a bit hard for them to swallow too, so I wouldn't hold my
> breath waiting for any retractions from the major media outlets.
>
> It's a damned shame, really
>
> Rik
>
> Herb Parsons wrote:
>
> >You folks will remember, although I never claimed to be an expert, I
> related that what I saw of New Orleans was people trying to do their best in
> a bad situation, both victims and those trying to help the victims. I
> realized that this flew in the face of the reports of everything that was
> going wrong. I have to admit, I also believed many of those stories before I
> left - One of my biggest fears that I related to my wife was that I would
> run into someone with a gun, who wanted me to give something, or do
> something, that I would be unable to do (my other two fears were having to
> deal with retrieving bodies, and getting down there and not actually being
> able to do anything). Fortunately, none of my fears materialized.
> >
> >As I said before, virtually everything I saw confirmed that nature of the
> human spirit in rough times. Don't get me wrong, I know there were problems,
> but I didn't see them.
> >
> >Probably the worst that I heard, and one of the things that FEMA and the
> Bush administration was roundly chastised for, was the "rampant lawlessness"
> in the SuperDome and the NO Convention Center. Mayor Nagin himself talked
> about "babies being raped". The coverage by the news media prompted people
> in the Dome to leave in fear of their lives.
> >
> >Turns out the media had it wrong, the mayor had it wrong, maybe even a
> person or two on here had it wrong. 6 people died in the Dome, not hundreds.
> Four died of natural causes, one overdosed on drugs, one committed suicide.
> The story wasn't much different in the convention center (4 dead, one
> possibly by foul play).
> >
> >The story is here :
> http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_26.html#082732
> >
> >I suspect we're going to see more and more sensationalist "news" cleared
> up. Of course, it'll be harder to find the buried in whatever current
> sensationalism the media is engaged in, as the truth comes out.
> >
> >Herb Parsons
> >
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