In any case, there were, throughout the entire ordeal, places where folks could go to get the unadulterated facts. In the on-line world, bloggers such as Michelle Malkin, Irish Trojan Blog, Right Wing Nut House, etc., provided detailed and breaking news direct from a variety of sources, leaving it up to the discerning reader to determine what was wheat and what was chaff.
Carr's closing words express the feelings of many of us who were both tantalized and frustrated by the media's hyperbole:
"Even now, the real, actual events in New Orleans in the past three weeks surpass the imagination. Who needs urban myths when the reality was so brutal?"
Amen.
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Article comments
1 - Tom Maguire
Two comments - first, Matt Welch wrote the same column on Sept 6.
Second, Carr says, twice, that the reports of a helicopter being fired upon were confirmed. Welch debunks that - it was "confirmed" by a National Guard officer (so Carr has a technical defense), but the heads of the FAA and Homeland Security had no reports of such an incident.
2 - cowgirl
Unfortunately for Carr and several others who try to minimize the horrors of NOLA, many of those events *did* happen. When police confirm those incidents, they are called corrupt and untrustworthy. When several witnesses tell the same story about a crime, it's called hearsay. What will it take for people to acknowledge what happened there? Surveillance tapes? If people are waiting for DNA confirmation of all of these crimes, good luck. Weeks of 90-plus degree temperatures don't bode well for preserving evidence. Here's one link (of many) I've found that tell the same story of violence in the Superdome...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/1/230732.shtml
But by all means, let's continue to ignore all this "hearsay", and maybe we can just wish the whole ugly incident away.
3 - cowgirl
Oops, wrong link above. Try here and here.
4 - Temple Stark
Reliable source
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Right Wing Nut House
hee hee. c'mon now.
5 - Temple Stark
I was the last comment here, huh?
Ah well. Now I got a second reminder chuckle out of it.
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