Okay, for the last week, as Hurricane Gustav was heading toward New Orleans, the news outlets covered it almost 24 hrs a day. If it wasn’t for Bristol Palin’s pregnancy the coverage would have been greater. Now a hurricane is moving toward NC and how much coverage was there on CNN, Foxnews and MSNBC regarding Hanna? Not much. They seem to be preoccupied with digging up more dirt on Palin now. Well, I understand the devastation Hurricane Katrina wrought on the New Orleans and gulf coast area, but it wasn’t too many years ago we had Fran and then later Floyd, which flooded a greater area than did Katrina and did about as much damage. I know there was not as many deaths, because Eastern NC is not as populous, but the hurricanes were just as devastating. Where is the concern of a repeat of those hurricanes? Why does the national news outlets not think as much about NC as NO? It is political. The response to Katrina is considered a black eye to the administration. The networks believe rehashing Katrina can only hurt Bush and hopefully McCain. Let us not forget though, resources were in place to help the people in the path of Katrina, but that path was not directly at NO it was further east along the gulf coast. No would not have been in danger if not for the levy breaks. People seem to forget that point. The history books now seem to indicate NO was directly hit, it wasn’t. It was a secondary effect of the hurricane that caused the problem. There is no one that can move the massive amount of resources needed to help NO as quickly as needed. Plus, there were other communities that were as, if not more, devastated than NO. Those communities seem to be forgotten too. There is a hurricane baring down on NC and an even bigger one behind it. We will be okay, we always have been. So I don’t mind if you forget us, jsut don’t pretend to care when you really want to score political points.
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