Media Blackout in NOLA?

[enigami]

Is the media censorship in NOLA because they don't want any pictures of the dead? Or because they don't want images of people being forcibly disarmed and removed from their homes?

[electropop]

1. It's the summary executions.

And the shooting of stranded pets.

[CottonBear]

2. No photos of the dead allowed. Citizens being handcuffed at gunpoint: OK

:(

[enigami]

4. probably all the above n/t

[Junkdrawer]

3. But the good news is that NOW the expected death toll is WAY lower...

The expected official death toll, that is.

As for the REAL death toll...:shrug:

[Trillo]

5. Wouldn't look good for ruling GOP in elections of 2006 and 2008

The GOP, republicans working daily to Gouge Our Poor.

Don't want any poor "dead body" evidence the opposition can use during elections.

[dbt]

6. Some dots need connecting here.

First, we hear about media blackouts and/or exclusions. Next, we hear that the death toll may "not be catastrophic" after all. It would be SO characteristic of the bu$h regime to simply incinerate all those inconvenient corpses without having to do any sort of accounting...

Remember New Orleans.

[Imagevision]

7. What happened to Freedom Of The Press...?

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[C_U_L8R]

8. When Did the US Become A Banana Republic??

Oh right ...we have a chimp for president....
should have expected it.. and worse.

This stuff smells like modern fascism....
like the Khmer Rouge, like Sadaam Hussein,
except it's here in the heartland.

Pathetic. Where is the outrage?

[moodforaday]

9. CNN International showed three gruesome photos

of bodies, mutilated and bloody, in either the Superdome or the Convention Center, I didn't catch. They said it was unknown how those people died. They also said they had a fourth image of two people dead in a wheelchair (not the well-known person covered with a sheet), but it was too graphic to show. The photos were not CNN's, they said they obtained them from someone (unnamed). I'd be putting words in their mouth if I said these pictures were smuggled out, but it sounded close.

[Ms. Clio]

10. Both of those, and probably other reasons, too

These people are control freaks, after all.