UK media now fully and eloquently reporting post-Katrina, with pictures

[Benbow]

eg the Independent newspaper (I have not been out for the papers yet but I hear that the photo on the web site home page - aerial view of inundated NO - takes up the whole of the front page of the printed version)

http://www.independent.co.uk/

Independent also says that the Gulf of Mexico oil fields are "paralysed".

And the Guardian speaks of "devastation"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The BBC Radio 4 news was leading on the disaster this morning - and trying to put your president in a good light: they reported that he was cutting short his holiday, not that he was returning to work 48 hours before he had planned to do so. Someone from the American Salvation Army was interviewed: he sounded very very shocked, describing their work of search and rescue and trying to support people who are meant to be on dialysis, and saying that the area will recover - but not tomorrow, perhaps next year.

The Daily Telegraph has a story headed "New Orleans swept back to the Stone Age" and lots of pictures, including one of those taken by the Italian photographer from La Repubblica, on the US coastguard helicopter.

One media outlet - I forget which - described NO now lying in a vast polluted swamp.

This is one story on the BBC web site, with links to other reports.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4199350.stm

[Suich]

1. Thanks for this post! eom

[Desertrose]

2. America's 'greatest natural disaster

31 August 2005 00:00


Engulfed: New Orleans torn apart by Katrina,
America's 'greatest natural disaster'




A semi-submerged New Orleans
in effect ceased to function
as America struggled to come to grips
with the devastating onslaught
of Hurricane Katrina.

[newswolf56]

3. Given the Bush penchant for secrecy and censorship...

and the oligarchy's absolute control of mainstream U.S. media, the British and Canadian media -- especially the Leftist papers -- may turn out to be our best news sources on this disaster.

[wli]

4. The UK and Canadian media are getting infiltrated, too.

We're going to have to get translators to get accurate reporting.

[Carolab]

5. Disturbing line here.

"The police are trying to do what they can in difficult circumstances. Martial law could be the answer."