The excellent Best of New Orleans Blog has this post about locals’ reaction to the national coverage:
I won’t even attempt to link to every blogpost or Twitter, but the disgust with the cable networks’ coverage of this storm seems absolute and universal among Louisianans. I keep looking for someone who can find something positive or useful on CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC, but people in the city and across the country are howling at how bad this coverage is.
An earlier post notes that “the cable networks … seem determined to justify their investment in covering this storm by turning it into a reality show.”
You can get much much better coverage from the four live-streaming New Orleans stations: WWL, WDSU, WVUE, and WGNO. (Also, DirectTV users can watch WDSU on channel 361.) All four stations’ feeds can be viewed on one page here. Highly recommended over CNN, Fox or MSNBC.
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3 Comments
1. doctorj2u:This was the same during and after Katrina. It was 2 different stories. The local one was the real story. The national one was a reality show.
Sep 1, 2008 - 9:59 am 2. em g:Thanks for the link to the local coverage. I’ve been watching online since I saw it on the site yesterday. The coverage is far superior to the Cables.
Sep 1, 2008 - 1:13 pm 3. George:I’ve been watching WWLs coverage on TXCN here in North Texas. http://www.txcn.com/ Went to get a haircut and the effects of Gustav were very real. The woman cutting my hair got caught in heavy traffic comming from Houston and the other two customers were evacuees from Lousiana. One customer had just received a call that a neighbor’s barn had been destroyed and she was worried about her horse. They drove several hundred miles with 5 dogs in the car.
Sep 1, 2008 - 8:08 pm