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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
Here's my take on why we're not seeing the desperate coverage and calls for assistance to the Mid West the way we did with New Orleans. Those of us over here on the west coast are used to seeing stories about the mid west getting flooded, and tornados. Of course this is far worse than what is typical, but many folks probably don't realize it. These photos of flooded out landscapes look the same to them as the flooded out landscapes we seem to see every year from that part of the country. They won't start to notice it until they go to the store this summer and wonder why the corn for their bbq is so expensive.
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That makes sense to me in terms of the amount of attention the average person is actually paying to the story, but it doesn't explain why the press isn't doing a better job with actually covering the reality (500 year flood), unless we've all just kind of accepted that they feed us the news that they think we want to watch.
ETA: if you just pull up the basic front page of the Atlanta paper: ajc.com, I don't even think a flood story appears, but they've got room for a link on horse vasectomies, wth?