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| Staged events | | Date Created: Oct 15, 2005, 10:29 AM |
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It's impossible to keep up but the latest kerfluffle regarding a "staged" teleconference between George Bush and soldiers in Iraq is really up there in wasted bandwidth and the desperation of the damn-Bush-at-all-costs-and-amounts-of-hypocrisy crowd. Here's an nice essay on the subject by Mary Katherine Ham and her example of a truly staged event posted on LittleGreenFootballs.
Regarding the hypocrisy of the MSM in the New Orleans/Katrina disaster (which IMHO was one of the real stories and lessons to be learned), see Mark Tapscott's essay called When Will Mainstream Media Apologize for Katrina Goofs.
My favorite science writer, Michael Fumento, weighs in on the MSM coverage of Katrina here.
"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina two sports were all the rage in New Orleans. One was the blame game, attributing all local and state incompetence to the feds. The other was inventing and spreading stories of murder and mayhem – killings, rapes, firing at rescuers, bodies stacked like cordwood.
But the accounts turned out to be grim fairy tales. They were also hardly harmless sensationalism – if there be such a thing; because of them people suffered and apparently died."
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