Day By Day© by Chris Muir.Friday, September 09, 2005
MSM covers for Blanco
Watched as much of the morning news shows as I could this morning. Quite frankly, its difficult to pay attention amongst flying pop tarts and the tattling and arguing that accompanies having little people in your house. Best I can tell, no real focus on Blanco's DHS stopping the Red Cross from entering New Orleans.
That doesn't mean that the story isn't having an effect, though. It seems that the MSM has shifted the story more towards "why didn't the feds help the people stranded in their homes sooner". You know, those people they had been telling us didn't want to go anyway.
This is important. The MSM has an uncanny ability to shift gears and change their story, and act like nothing happened. If you think carefully, I bet you can remember a time when the media seemed to be disappointed that Katrina really didn't live up to expectations. New Orleans had dodged a bullet. Two days later, they had reframed the story so as to lead us to believe that everyone knew that Katrina had been bad from the beginning. Thus, there was no excuse for not acting sooner.
Now, I am predicting that they will do they same thing with the story of the people left behind in New Orleans. The plight of the folks in the convention center and Super Dome will take a back seat to the people left scattered about the city. Mention that the Red Cross was stopped from relieving the misery in the Super Dome, and someone will be there to falsly claim that the Super Dome was never the real problem or the focus of the media's complaints.
Thus, they defuse the story before they ever get around to really reporting it. Watch and see.
Related:
The Corner hints that Brown will quit today. Good riddance. Clearly not up for the job.
JunkYardBlog finds that Blanco DID order the Buses of New Orleans to evacuate the poor...after they were flooded and useless.
That doesn't mean that the story isn't having an effect, though. It seems that the MSM has shifted the story more towards "why didn't the feds help the people stranded in their homes sooner". You know, those people they had been telling us didn't want to go anyway.
This is important. The MSM has an uncanny ability to shift gears and change their story, and act like nothing happened. If you think carefully, I bet you can remember a time when the media seemed to be disappointed that Katrina really didn't live up to expectations. New Orleans had dodged a bullet. Two days later, they had reframed the story so as to lead us to believe that everyone knew that Katrina had been bad from the beginning. Thus, there was no excuse for not acting sooner.
Now, I am predicting that they will do they same thing with the story of the people left behind in New Orleans. The plight of the folks in the convention center and Super Dome will take a back seat to the people left scattered about the city. Mention that the Red Cross was stopped from relieving the misery in the Super Dome, and someone will be there to falsly claim that the Super Dome was never the real problem or the focus of the media's complaints.
Thus, they defuse the story before they ever get around to really reporting it. Watch and see.
Related:
The Corner hints that Brown will quit today. Good riddance. Clearly not up for the job.
JunkYardBlog finds that Blanco DID order the Buses of New Orleans to evacuate the poor...after they were flooded and useless.
