Midwest Floods Seems Bigger Than New Orleans But MSM Is Not Covering As Much Because?.....

[global1]

I'm befuddled by the lack of reporting on the current Midwest Flood situation. I look at the footage they show us and consider the area involved - and it looks to me worse than New Orleans.

Now I know that there are no people dying in the streets. No buses sitting idle. No people huddled in a Convention Center. And probably no one to blame - BUT - why isn't this a major story? Why aren't we being inundated with news specials on these floods?

I keep hearing that this is the 500 year flood. I'm beginning to think that this is all related to 'global warming' and that things are just going to get worse as each year passes.

Things are still real bad in the Midwest and getting worse for the towns downriver. The weather still can be a factor and if some more violent weather systems come through again - this can continue and even get worse.

Now we'll see rising prices for farmed food and even biofuels made with corn as a result. The levies are inadequate and need to be rebuilt and much higher and stronger in the future. The loss, the cost. This is a big story that is being neglected by MSM - WHY?

[tekisui]

1. If it bleeds it leads.

I think that since few have died, the floods are being ignored.

[islandmkl]

2. second '500-year' flood in 15 years....

guess we were just getting to the top of the curve in '93...

good news...no more big floods for 485 years or so...

[elocs]

6. Where I live we had two 100 year floods in just 10 months.

The 100 year thing is just an indication of odds, like 1 in 100. Theoretically we could have another 100 year flood this summer.

[stillcool]

17. we had a 100-year flood here..

a couple of years ago..lost everything we owned. I had no idea 100 year floods were so common.

[elocs]

18. They're really not supposed to be, that's why they're called 100 year floods,

but then you have the people who win the lottery more than once. What's the odds of that?
Nope, life definitely ain't fair.

[elocs]

3. I am not sure what barometer is being used to determine that flooding coverage is being neglected.

I see it on the network news every night and on the morning shows. Coverage may not be as much as some like, but I don't believe it is being neglected.

[KamaAina]

4. Check back in three years

and see if the affected areas have rebuilt. Large swaths of New Orleans and other sections of the Gulf Coast have not.

why isn't this a major story? Why aren't we being inundated with news specials on these floods?

Didn't you hear? Tim Russert died. I'll try and find a link for you if I can. :sarcasm:

edit: Gulf Coast

[flvegan]

5. Paris Hilton's house hasn't been threatened/destroyed in the process.

Therefore, the "media" doesn't care.

[Speck Tater]

7. Perhaps because there is no flood of refugees? NT

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. There are plenty of internally displaced people actually

but the news has not covered that EITHER

[Fovea]

8. The other story.

Where will all that water end up?

That's right, New Orleans.

[malaise]

9. It's more extensive but it is not of the same intensity

or neglect of NOLA or Mississippi during and following Katrina. That said M$M (with the exception of CNN) has failed big time re coverage.

[TBF]

10. Central Wisconsin was hit pretty hard as well - my dad is still in a hotel

while they figure out how to get 3 feet of water out of the basement. My mother lives in Fond du Lac Wisconsin on the lower tip of Lake Winnebago and is fortunate that she is located on an area that's higher (the houses are older, but they survived the flood in the 1920's - the last one of this magnitude - so she should be ok). The rest of her town is not so fortunate and one house even exploded because the occupants were on vacation and their pilot light was still on.

The only way to get the news is talk to people or check out their local newspapers online. It's crazy.

[Warpy]

11. Aw, jeez, they'd have to hire helicopters and fly newscasters to the

scene and how many wet cornfields do they think they can show before people go looking for more Britney news? Covering real news is expensive, folks.

When a dead propagandist drops into their laps, they're going to run with that story. It's nice and cheap and they don't need to leave town.

[notadmblnd]

12. Floods are so passe?

What do expect, they covered Katrina? Maybe if a blond hair, blue eyed white girl goes missing in the middle of the Mississippi, then they'll give it some attention.

[Doityourself]

14. Lmao!!

:rofl: :spray:

[silverojo]

13. Because rich media types don't go to Iowa to party

They did go to NOLA, which is why it mattered to them. If it's not NYC, LA, or a favorite vacation destination, it's not newsworthy. :mad:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. 1. Floods aren't as sexy as hurricanes

2. Dubuque, Iowa isn't as sexy as N' Awlins.

3. It's harder to find The Story in something that's spread over several states.

[ObamaTime2008]

16. Because Iowans voted in record numbers

and gave it all to Obama. It has pissed them off and they don did run outta money you know.

[NC_Nurse]

19. I've heard it every day on NPR. They have covered it quite thoroughly.

If you are watching MSNBC...they mostly do politics. Maybe that's why.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Several reasons

1.- Global warming, and we really don't want connecting of them dots

2.- Out of sight, out of mind... they are HOPING that good Amerikans don't really notice and continue to be distracted. Katrina led to some waking up of Amerikan new citizens... and we cannot have that. By the way, the way they are treating this is EXACTLY the way the Soviet Media treated major events that could be socially, ahem problematic.

3.- If they cover it, well shit folks may actually start pressing to ahem, get help, even then pesky fereigners... you see... and we can't have them who know how to do this, pressure our dear leaders to get the help we need

Now citizen time for all of us to snooze back to sleep... that is what GOOD AMERIKANS do these days.

(and for the ones who miss it, :sarcasm:, but sadly I fear I speak the truth here... mostly I've been one of them silly people who saw this coming a week ago and have been insisting we need the cavalry even if they speak English with an accent, nooo (canadians) or speak Spanish)

[gkhouston]

22. Bush doesn't want us to know that he doesn't give a shit about white people, either.

Like we haven't figured that out yet.

[Leopolds Ghost]

23. I see footage of kind-hearted people piling up sandbags. Nobody did that for New Orleans

They came in from as far as N. Dakota -- with guns. Vigilantes.

[TreasonousBastard]

24. What MSM? I see flood coverage all the time. n/t

[tom_paine]

25. Because it's an "election" year and in Inverted Totalitarian Nations like Amerika

the job of the Toady Media is not to make their owners look bad.

If this had happened during an "election" year with a Democratic President, it would be "Gary Condit" coverage every day for a month.

Yawn. Totalitarianism is boring and predictable, even in this new form of Inverted Totalitariansim the Bushies invented specifically to enslave US.

But you asked, and as with most totalitarian nations, the answer is amazingly simple.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. Because Shrub couldn't bother to get his ass out there until today. All of a sudden, you'll see lots

of coverage, as if it just happened yesterday.