Re: Can the media coverage be influenced?
This is a somewhat emotional response because I am just sickened by what I am hearing on TV these days..<br /><br />These media people cannot see the forest for the trees as they cannot be bothered to deviate from their primary mission. Administration change.<br /><br />the vast majority of media, in collusion with the hating, destructive left (including many democrats, but not completely) are floating anything they can to chip away at republican leadership in preparation for the 2006 and 2008 cycle. I don't think they sit around and strategize around this mission. I believe it has become a knee jerk reaction that they automatically revert to.<br /><br />These people are suffering through a catastrophe we have not seen the likes of. Yet I am bothered by the entitlement attitudes some of the people are displaying. Sht happens, and this is a natural disaster. Pick up your cross or whatever symbol you want to use and bear the load. To think that the autorities are not doing everything they can at this point ot deal with the situation and are sitting back on their haunches is stupid. This is a huge undertaking and it just can't happen in 2.5-3 days. <br /><br />The fact of the matter is that we (all of us, not just GWB) bet on a CBA that this would not happen (the levees built to withstand cat 3 hurricane - building them to cat 5 would be far too costly from a CBA perspective. this was doen years ago - not by GWB). We lost that bet and have to deal with the consequences.<br /><br />What about local leadership? I know that I was living in a city 7 feet below sea level and that I could be underwater simply by a very bad storm, I would be damn sure I had all preparations in place to deal with this.<br /><br />One last note. If my city says to evacuate. I am outta there. And with me will be a bunch of stuff that will hepl me survive. Outside of the poor who do not have means, people need to bear personal responsibility for themselves. The Gov't is not or parent and should not be held accountable for our ultimate care. That is our independent responsibility.
