Friday, September 30, 2005
Goodness Sakes, Hugh, Keep Your Voice Down!
Too late: Hugh Hewitt's question is already out there in this interview with Heath Allen of ABC affiliate WDSU in New Orleans. Allen had rationalized to Joe Scarborough that journalists reported every wild-eyed rumor swirling around post-Katrina because the folks there were so badly in need of assistance:
We had all the resources of the American media combined in New Orleans. Everything they had, they threw at it. With the help of locals like you and national networks, print, media, radio, everything, not one outlet could get inside the convention center or the Superdome to do accurate reporting. What's that tell us about the trustworthiness of American media, when it's far away from home in a war zone like Iraq? Isn't that in fact an obvious admission that not only can they not do the job in New Orleans, we can't expect them to do the job of accurate reporting in a war zone like Iraq?
As one wag pointed out, had this been a prizefight, the ref would have stopped it after one round.
We had all the resources of the American media combined in New Orleans. Everything they had, they threw at it. With the help of locals like you and national networks, print, media, radio, everything, not one outlet could get inside the convention center or the Superdome to do accurate reporting. What's that tell us about the trustworthiness of American media, when it's far away from home in a war zone like Iraq? Isn't that in fact an obvious admission that not only can they not do the job in New Orleans, we can't expect them to do the job of accurate reporting in a war zone like Iraq?
As one wag pointed out, had this been a prizefight, the ref would have stopped it after one round.
