Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Teresa <ttbrader AT mindspring.com>]

I'd like the New Yorker to read this article:

http://tinyurl.com/73zwq

I knew most of what was reported in this article already from various things I was reading, but I have corroboration in one article now -- most of the violence that was reported happening in New Orleans by the national media after Hurricane Katrina never happened.  (The local media on our battery operated TV never reported things like that.  They were busy getting the real stuff out that people who were still around needed to know.) 

This makes me so mad, because most of the nat'l sources have not made any retractions.  They were just reporting what they heard on the street and not following up on it.  As if the squalid conditions and the indignities that people had to endure -- that really did exist -- were not bad enough to report on!  Because of the rumors and false reporting, I'm sure some of the rescuers were deterred from what they needed to be doing.

Teresa
from Kenner -- 2 suburbs to the west of the city of N.O.

Dye, Steve wrote:

(though  not nearly as bad as) what we've seen for the past week, with
armed bands roaming the countryside, columns of smoke rising on the
horizon, and people hiding out in half-destroyed buildings.