And so I'll risk being banned for posting something that was put up earlier and disappeared into the netherworld never, under the rules, to be seen again unless I engage in this bit of civil disobedience. (Certainly risky around here given the beating Cindy Sheehan is taking from some for being arrested.)
The people of New Orleans were vilified in the press as vicious, out of control monsters who were raping, robbing and slaughtering in the Superdome and the Convention Center. But it turns out not to be true.
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Here is a link to the New Orleans Times-Picayune article about the search for bodies in the Superdome and the Convention Center. Toll: Superdome --
6 bodies: 4 dies of natural causes, 1 overdose, and 1 suicide Convention Center --
4 bodies: 1 possible homicide, others apparently natural causes. Of course the damage has already been done and there won't be any follow ups or apologies from the mass media that perpetrated the fraud. The link:
N.O. Times-Picayune
FYI: nola.com is the Times-Picayune's web site. The paper has provided excellent coverage of the New Orleans disaster even while it was happening. When forced to evacuate the paper's offices, they moved their operation to Baton Rouge and have published every day, though the first two days were web based only.
The people of New Orleans are NOT what they were portrayed to be. They are no different than you and me. But serious, unacceptable damage has been done to them by the reporting that came out of Hurricane Katrina.
