Don’t Be Fooled

Don’t let the media fool you, its not about your right to know, it’s all about their right to show has much gore and tragedy as they can. That way, they get the ratings and with that the MONEY from the advertisers.

Honore, who heads the military's Joint Task Force Katrina, said that over the next three days, officials should learn how many people died in New Orleans. He said the preliminary figure of 10,000 offered last week by some officials was "a number we'd be very happy to be wrong about."

Honore also addressed the issue of media access during recover efforts. The Bush administration, challenged in court by CNN, agreed on Saturday not to prevent the media from following the effort to recover the bodies of Katrina victims.

On Thursday, Honore said the media would be allowed "zero access" to recovery efforts. But on Sunday, he said reporters and photographers have "total access" to the area.

"I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter," Honore said.

He said his concern had been that news media would report deaths before family members had been notified. Reporters also were denied a seat on rescue craft because of concerns for overcrowding, he said.

The government is not permitting photographers to join rescuers in boats or helicopters during the mission to recover bodies from flooded homes.

CNN side of the story:

"Photographs of flood victims' bodies is part of the overall coverage of Hurricane Katrina," said Cliff Schiappa, the AP's regional photo editor for the Midwest."When choosing an appropriate image, we do not want to be gratuitous, but rather put the image in context of the flood and suffering. The government is very concerned about the recovery efforts being done in a dignified manner, as it should be done. As members of the media, it's our job to show the world that such an effort is being made and carried out."

General Honore wanted to do it right. He doesn'tneed you tagging along.

I have NO faith that you won't show bodies if you could coming out of homes.

Lets not allow the families the dignity of having time to greive and remembering the loved one as they once were.

NO, no, no, lets just show as many, decaying corps as we can.

It's about ratings.

Its all about the money.

Exactly what do you think they were going to hide CNN?? What you should have done was take the money you had to pay your fancy lawyers to file your little challenge and given it to the families trying to rebuild their lives!

It isn't all about the money, it is about loss and pain, it's about trying anyway you can to rebuild your life and move forward.

Shame on you!!!! Do your mothers know your all so freaking heartless?

I can promise you this they won't get ratings from me. I won't watch. But I am giving everything in my power to help as should we all.