In this broadcast, I have assembled audio clips from various mainstream corporate media from those first days after Hurricane Katrina. Listen as previously ‘well-behaved’ and compliant newsreaders and reporters begin to show their humanity and reveal their outrage. They’re ‘not going to take it anymore’! Those who fail to grasp the depth of failures that have occured and all the important questions and concerns that have arisen are not allowed to get away with official spin and empty rhetoric. Listen!
Hurricane Katrina cannot be blamed for all of the deaths occurring in New Orleans. The local, state and federal government failed those who – for various reasons – stayed behind. Confronted with the overwhelming suffering during the first week after Katrina, even mainstream corporate media could no longer ignore the ugly truths revealed about how our country neglects its poor. The excuses made by not just the leaders of our governmental institutions but also by fellow citizens – uninterested in confronting unattractive historic realities – revealed arrogant, dismissive, supremacist attitudes.
1. 2002 New Orleans Times-Picayune Newspaper
2. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and US Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana
3. Fox News’ Shepard Smith, Geraldo Rivera and Sean Hannity
4. CNN’s Paula Zahn and FEMA’s Michael Brown
5. NPR’s Robert Siegel and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff
6. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty
7. PBS’ Jim Lehrer, NYTimes’ David Brooks, Boston Globe’s Tom Oliphant and Chicago’s Clarence Page
8. Nightline’s Ted Koppel and FEMA’s Michael Brown
9. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and US Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi
10. CNN’s Larry King and Celine Dion
11. ABC’s George Stephanapoulos and US Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana
12. NBC’s Tim Russert and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff
13. NBC’s Tim Russert and New Orleans Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard
14. CBS’ Bob Schieffer
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Katrina Purges Sin and Spin
The national disgrace continues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as some evangelical right-wing religious leaders confidently expla…
Katrina Purges Sin and Spin
The national disgrace continues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as some evangelical right-wing religious leaders confidently expla…
MSNBC’s Keith Olberman delivers a scathing editorial on the Bush Administration and the event which will define Bush’s Presidency – the bungled aftermath of Hurricane Katrina…
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“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.”
“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this – this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.” Mrs. Bush said while touring hurricane relief shelters in Houston.
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