[JoeXIII'007]

I totally agree with Sciguy's opinion: in short, the media has reached one of its lowest points in history when it comes to its coverage of the Hurricane. Sure, its bad, its really really bad, but when you have the mayor cussing up a worse storm on the news, victims screaming into the camera out of panic, clips of random violence and looting, and a lack of a big picture, there's a problem when you try and give people elsewhere who want true information a sense of what's really going on down there.

To add to that, I feel quite disturbed when reporters, victims, or other people ask authorities during conferences or random Q&A sessions questions along the lines of "Why, when we are the 'richest country in the world' and 'we have been able to get troops to Iraq immediately,' have we not had a more quicker response?" They ask those questions out of pure ignorance of the enormity of the disaster. They DO NOT UNDERSTAND that an entire infrastructure/city/system has been completely wiped out/shut down and flooded with water. It's not like we knew it was going to be like this, nor could the US place troops/emergency personelle there before a scheduled 'beginning of combat operations' so to speak.