Mississippians’ Suffering Overshadowed
On Thursday, I posted a question about the lack of significant coverage coming out of affected areas outside of New Orleans and why there wasn’t more of it. Looks like I’m not the only one wondering:
About those levees
There’s been a lot of Bush-blaming going on in the last week by the usual suspects about the fact that funding for the US Army Corps of Engineers had been decreased by a substantial amount last year in favor of pumping more money into the Iraq war effort. The conclusion drawn from that from that same crowd is that if Bush hadn’t have called for the decrease in funding for the US ACE, the levees that burst earlier this week after Hurricane Katrina’s rampage would have been upgraded quickly so as to avoid the exact scenario that sadly happened in New Orleans on Monday.
Media pushes “white guilt” angle
Thursday I asked the question: Looting: Is it as bad in Mississippi as it is in Louisiana? I went on to ask more:
The race card is officially on the table
You knew it was bound to happen.
Looting: Is it as bad in Mississippi as it is in Louisiana?
All I’m hearing about are stories coming out of New Orleans of chaos and looting but not much out of the devastated areas of Mississippi. Is this an example of the media’s focusing too much on one area (that is historic in nature) or is there another angle that perhaps I’m missing?