FEMA is trying to censor the news and the national guard is pointing guns at reporters 


Federal officials are trying to stop the press from reporting the full extent and horror of the New Orleans disaster. 

Reuters reported, "FEMA has excluded journalists from recovery expeditions and asked them to not take pictures of the dead..."

Brian Williams, anchor of NBC's Nightly News, reported on his weblog on Wednesday, "While we were attempting to take pictures of the National Guard (a unit from Oklahoma) taking up positions outside a Brooks Brothers on the edge of the Quarter, the sergeant ordered us to the other side of the boulevard. The short version is: there won't be any pictures of this particular group of Guard soldiers on our newscast tonight."

He also said, "At that same fire scene, a police officer from out of town raised the muzzle of her weapon and aimed it at members of the media... obvious members of the media... armed only with notepads. Her actions (apparently because she thought reporters were encroaching on the scene) were over the top and she was told. There are automatic weapons and shotguns everywhere you look. It's a stance that perhaps would have been appropriate during the open lawlessness that has long since ended on most of these streets." 

Posted: Thursday - September 08, 2005 at 09:41 AM          

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