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It is one thing for the media to get a story wrong.\u00a0 Sometimes, in the midst of an event, it is easy for a reporter to make a mistake.\u00a0 I still remember when those miners were trapped in a coal mine in West Virginia.\u00a0 A report leaked that all the miners had been found alive.\u00a0 The reports on the scene were elated.\u00a0 But, unfortunately, that report was wrong.\u00a0 It turned out that only one miner lived and he was severely injured.\u00a0 But it is another thing to get a story wrong, refuse to admit it, and just continue to repeat the lies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The worse case of case of media malpractice was with regard to Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0 The news media reported a national tragedy, with people dying needlessly, surrounded by violence and mayhem with no government help.\u00a0 The problem is that the media got almost everything wrong.\u00a0 I wrote a post on this several months ago.\u00a0 If you want a refresher on what really happened, here is the link:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=201<\/a><\/p>\n

Unlike the main stream media, my post is based on solid documentation, rather then antidotes by camera hungry malcontents and continuous reruns of the same misleading videos accompanied by self-congratulatory comments by arrogant news anchors.<\/p>\n

I just watched Fox News interview people about how terrible it was in the Superdome after Katrina.\u00a0 It was bad.\u00a0 People were hungry, it smelled and it was hot and humid.\u00a0 They were uncomfortable and they were angry. \u00a0But there was nothing said about the greatest search and rescue operation in the history of the world that was going on at the same time.\u00a0 Literally hundreds of helicopters, boats and other vehicles were organized in a desperate effort to save over 100,000 people who were in deadly peril.\u00a0 Initial estimates were for a death toll in excess of 10,000.\u00a0 In any other country in the world, that would have been true.\u00a0 But that did not happen in New Orleans, because of a heroic effort by the National Guard and the Coast Guard.\u00a0 The main stream media still has refused to tell anyone what really happened.\u00a0 For example, did any of you see a report indicating that an emergency hospital was function at the Superdome that treated over 5,000 people with a remarkable level of success?\u00a0 Did any of you see a news report showing so many helicopters flying continuous rescue missions that the biggest fear was mid-air collision?\u00a0 All of that happened, but no one reported on it.\u00a0 They were too busy spreading false reports about widespread violence and hundreds of people dying unnecessarily because George Bush hated black people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The National Guard and the Coast Guard and FEMA knew people were unhappy, but they didn\u2019t want to divert precious resources to placate people who were loud, angry and uncomfortable, but safe, while other people were in danger of losing their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0If you read my post, it will quickly become obvious that a lot of things went wrong after Katrina, but no one botched this more than the main stream media.\u00a0 That was bad enough, but listening to them self-congratulate themselves five years later, while continuing to get almost everything wrong, is nauseating.\u00a0 In reality the video tapes of the main stream media reporting on Katrina, including the segments by Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera should be used as training tapes on how to botch a major story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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