Think about it - The Mainstream Media goes Krazy over Katrina - reporting every falsehood, rumor and lie as a fact:
Roving gangs of looters; gang rapes, shoot-outs and mass insanity in the Superdome; bodies left floating; Cannibalism even!
Mr. & Mrs. Middle Class White Bread America sits home being bombarded for days and days and days with reports of the total breakdown of all society, morality and order.
You dont have to stretch the imagination very far to think the consumers of this media garbage get to thinking to themselves - "hey, I don't see me and my neighbors behaving like that, even if a CAT 4 hurricane were to hit Madison...."
THEN what happens? Well it turns out things were not so crazy and out of control. Great propety damage and human suffering? Yes. All the rest? Mostly false.
So then what?? Nothing. Does the press castigate itself for it over-exuberance? No. Seen any special reports on what might have really happend? Have any editors or reporters fired? Why did they do this anyway? Ratings? Bush hatred? The presses inability to put anything in context?
So what is the net result? Millions and millions of Americans STILL believe the falsehoods that were told about the mostly poor and black residents of New Orleans. And that is promoting racism, IMHO.
