New Orleans Mainstream Media as Devastated as Everything Else
The New Orleans Times-Picayune’s response to Katrina and the aftermath is an illustration of the resourcefulness and challenges facing the city. In regard to the latter, the 260,000 circulation newspaper is not publishing today since it doesn’t yet have a location to print the paper nor is it sure how it would get them to readers. The paper was also forced to abandon the temporary headquarters as flood waters continued to rise. As a sign of its resourcefulness however it is continuing to publish stories and photos on it’s website (link above). The paper has also located reporters at the offices of two newspapers well outside of the city.
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The Sun Herald newspaper (of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, set up a blog. This is the sobering last entry (at least at the time of this posting) from 7 pm last night:
Communications to the Biloxi area are down — phone, e-mail, Internet …. These connectivity issues are what have kept Don Hammack and Geoff Pender from updating this blog.If you work for The Sun Herald, please contact the paper to let us know where you are.
As we know the news, we will post it to SunHerald.com. We’re in this with you for the long haul.
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NBC affiliate WDSU-TV’s transmitter is down so it is operating out of WAPT-TV in Jackson, Miss. The station broadcast reports on the web until 7 pm last night before relying on a sister channel in Florida to pick up the slack. It is unknown when they will resume broadcasting.
Jazz station WWOZ had this on their website:
Due to HURRICANE KATRINA we signed off on August 27th at midnight. WWOZ will not be broadcasting until further notice.
There is still a lot of activity on their message board.
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Important Note: the New Orleans Times-Picyune is publishing a real-time list of the missing, so is Now Public.
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August 31st, 2005 at 4:10 pm
If what I read earlier today is true, it really pisses me off and makes me wonder why the people of this country put up with it. What I heard was that Amazon, E Bay MSN Yahoo and others are not doing for the victims of Katrina what they did for the victims of the tsunami in December.
I for one refuse to use their for pay services.
I believe charity starts at home and the time has come to do for our fellow Americans what we did for the tsunami victims.
We need to provide skilled workers, food, water, clothing, medical and prescription assistance to these people and we need to do it now!
Chuck
August 31st, 2005 at 4:46 pm
I read this on Michelle Malkin too. I’m going to give it a day and if it remains then start making an issue of it. Is it somehow not as cool to help the people in the south as it was to help those in Aceh?
September 1st, 2005 at 5:54 am
Hurricane Katrina is God’s punishment to the south for re-electing Bush, the anti-christ.
1) Show me anywhere in the Bible where Jesus advocates WAR or violence as an means of resolving anything. “Turn the other cheek.”
2) Show me in the Bible where Jesus blesses the wealthy
“Blessed are the meek and the poor, for they shall inherit the earth.”
3) Mr. Bush does not show any Christian values or qualities whatsoever. He may pay lipservice to God, but that is all he does. He has lied and deceived the American public and the United Nations. He has put his lust for wealth and power over the welfare of his own people, and in doing so, has caused acts of violence and hatred to be propagated against the God-fearing American people by his pals, the Muslim extremists. Remember, it was his father who armed the mujahadeen, which were the fore-runners of Al Qaida.
Mr. Bush is nothing more or less than an anti-christ and he is leading millions of Americans on the path to hell.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:14 am
crhymethinc: Without knowing it, you have joined al-Qaeda and the extreme left with the “we deserved this because we are bad” chorus.
For al-Qaeda and the Islamiofascists, it is because we are a nation of Infadels. This was God’s will. We are being punished because our women show their faces and we let them be educated!
For you and others like you (and let’s hope that their aren’t many more like you), it is a similar argument except that God took it out on a couple million people that had nothing to do with the things that you listed instead of just one well placed lighting bolt when W was out tooling around on his bike.
For the left, this was the result of global warming. We kwow this because the globe is getting warmer and the hurricane just hit. These are two uncontestable facts. We are seeing a real life version of “The Day After Tomorrow.” (This group conveniently ignores the differentiation between causation and correlation).
Of course, it’s just possible that since hurricanes have been around for millions of years this is just part of living on earth. If anything is learned it’s that people should indeed evacuate when told and that building cities below sea level is dangerous.
Oh yeah, there is one more lesson, that no matter what happens in life, people like you will distort events to fit their political point of view.
Now there is also the possibility that your posting is a joke in which case I just fell for it.
September 25th, 2005 at 6:39 pm
Actually, I was just kidding. I’m pretty much an atheist. As far as joining al Qaida, well, it could be worse - I could join the CIA and be teaching people like bin Laden how to commit acts of terrorism. Or I could become an American capitalist and support aggressive imperialist regimes, backed with the terror of weapons of mass destruction. Ask yourself why we are in Iraq, when almost every act of terrorism against this country has been committed by Saudis. The same people who bankrolled G Bush senior’s first oil company. The same people who were the ONLY ones allowed to fly, let alone leave this country directly after 9/11. I’ll bet if you look hard enough, you’ll find that they also give sizable donations to certain political campaigns.
September 25th, 2005 at 8:31 pm
Sorry I missed the satirical tone in your first post but you were so convincing as a zealot. I only mentioned Bin Laden because a) I thought you were serious; and b) I’m tired of the we did something to deserve Katrina because we are bad and therefore bad things will happen to us. Terrorism feeds off of people beliving we deserve whatever bad is happening to us.
The only thing we did to deserve Katrina was allow cities to be built below the water level. That was dumb. I believe they’ll end up rebuilding all of New Orleans–that’ll be dumb as well. I live in Southern California and people love to build homes by the ocean. So close that every 20 years they get flooded out by an “unprecedented” storm. But they aren’t unprecedented, they happen every 20 years or so. But rebuild they do and that is dumb unless they (or their insurance companies) are okay with paying for it. At least FEMA doesn’t pick up the tab.
As for the other aspects of your comment, this tread was about Katrina. We can get into what you wrote at another time.