Re: New Orleans has new traffic problems

Sherman L. Cahal wrote:
> k_flynn@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Sherman L. Cahal wrote:
> >> james wrote:
> >>> it would have been nice to see repeated corrections and announcements
> >>> regarding the completely FALSE reports of cannabalism and child rapes,
> >>> since it was repeately reported that within three days the city had
> >>> descended into morlock style behavior.
> >> That's why I no longer watch such crap like CNN, MSNBC, etc. because
> >> they continuously report false information, lean towards one political
> >> party, etc.
> >
> > Really? Which one?
>
> About how white people were eating babies in New Orleans...

That wasn't the question. I was wondering which political party they
lean toward, bc for my money, most reporting seems slanted toward the
GOP.

> Or about the
> cannabalism. Or about the loss of all "civility" in New Orleans. What
> about the nursing home scandal that turned out to be false, but was not
> corrected on national news? Or the "gangs" that were terrorizing the
> city center (that turned out to be overly exaggerated)?

Post some cites. I've never heard a cannibalism story out of NO. And
whether gangs terrorizing was exaggerated, I guess that's in the eye of
the beholder. Some might think it wasn't played up enough, whatever the
level might have been.

> Yeah, I bought into that when it first came out, but after reading other
> web-sites and other sources, these claims I concluded, were false. These
> sources were both from the left and the right leaning web-sites, such as
> Drudge and Huffington as I cited in my previous post, among many other
> blogs that I hold to have a higher accountancy than CNN, for example.

Reading other things that help you conform to your preconception isn't
truth-finding.

Fact is, in most of the fallout from NO, media reporting, I've found
most of the accusations are straw men and the recountings of
over-the-top media reports aren't exactly "accurate" in their own
rights.

.

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