news crackdown?

[keryx]

Look, they won't let reporters take pictures in New Orleans.

Raise your hand if you're surprised.

Yeah, I didn't think so.

On the upside, I think the presence of media can make people - i.e. guardsfolk - who really are trying to do good act like defensive asshats. And there's been some pretty opportunistic footage of survivors taken (although a decent portion of those photos are actually coming from their rescuers, not official press) to feed our appetite for the real image of destruction.

Comments

Wandering visitor

[cirith-ungol.livejournal.com]

I noticed your icon and had to ask - is there a source for that quote? It's real QOTD material.

Re: Wandering visitor

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Dunno. I ganked the icon from the talented nakedtiny, who might be able to attribute it to something/one.

[attrice.livejournal.com]

It doesn't surprise me at all. Especially when you consider that members of the media were actually starting to grow spines and demand answers from those in charge. Can't have that.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Spines! Egads! The job of the media is to dutifully report what the gub'mint tells them, isn't it?

Some of the most encouraging moments of the past several days have been those where members of the media and regular citizens or civic leaders have just freaked the eff out on paper/screen/air.

[cutegaychick.livejournal.com]

Fuckin liberal media!

[cutegaychick.livejournal.com]

(Dammit! Wrong icon! Trying again)

Fuckin liberal media!

[tupelo.livejournal.com]

AND they're going door to door, confiscating all (legally owned) firearms.

First amendment -- check.

Second amendment -- check.

Third amendment (quartering troops) -- ABC News video has a military spokesman who admits troops moved into a church without permission.

Fourth amendment -- definitely toast down there, with the dragging out of the people who won't leave.

And on it goes.....