Why does it take foreign news sources to get the lowdown on what is really happening in the US? Here’s an article from the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel about the warnings and shortsightedness of the Bush administration where the city of New Orleans is concerned. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html I don’t agree that this is no time to cast blame, because as usual the spin and deceive machine will go into effect as soon as the “time is right.”
There has been some outcry from the small circulation mostly left of center politically oriented publications, but who reads The Nation or the Washington Monthly, south of the mason Dixon line or anywhere west of the San Francisco / Seattle line. An interesting “roundup” of facts from one of the above sources: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007050.php
I still find it very hard to believe most mainstream American news outlets as far as any real news about the wholly fucked politically stone-age processes in the United States government. From the war in Iraq to Katrina, the coverage of any politically charged issue is either dissolved in the muck of shouting talking heads or the skimming over of a story for an increasingly ADD ridden public. Neither of these are conductive to anything but a somnambulist state, exactly what the advertisers want.
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