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Originally posted by AXiD670
But what I want to know is, as I sit here and watch the news coverage of all of this, I want to know why, especially in NO, where the reporters are shooting images from their car windows, are they just standing there and capturing all this on film? I realize it's their job, but isn't there a point where the situation becomes so urgent that you need to just stop and help?
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I've gotten the sense that many reporters are doing what they can to help, but what they can do may be limited. They don't have cases of water to hand out. They don't have food. I think lots of reporters have notebooks full of names and phone numbers to try and help reconnect families.
But realistically, perhaps the best way the reporters could help yesterday was to get it all on film/record to show FEMA and the White House what was really going on. I mean, sheesh, Chertoff was telling NPR yesterday that their reporter was basically repeating rumor about what was going on at the NOLA Convention Center -- one of his spokespeople sent NPR a message later in the day to say, basically, "guess what, turns out your guy was right."
