TD Flood coverage > Mainstream media coverage

Donna Brit appreciation...not really

I know there have been many different opinions on the quality of media coverage of the events of the last few days, so discuss them here.

I believe national coverage has been poor. What is talked about is vague and the same clip of David Phung led rescue keeps playing over and over again. I guess the destruction wasn't wide-spread enough or the death toll high enough to warrant more attention.

I only caught glimpses of coverage from the Weather Channel, but I understand that they were the only ones who gave significant national coverage. Of course, they live for this stuff - they almost get giddy reporting from disaster areas.

Local coverage from the New Orleans stations was not much better. Vague on details and again the same rescue clips are shown. A little more information was gleamed as far as major road closures, etc.

I did watch a mix of WAFB/WBRZ coverage online, and it was decent. I would have appreciated more INFORMATION and not just rescue stories. They've seem to have become better about provided needed information in the last day or so. There has been a lot of Donna Britt hate here. I really didn't pay much attention to her until last night. She seemed pretty giddy like she had drunk a couple of gallons of coffee, or daiquiris, while he co-anchor seemed exhausted.

My father listened to WJBO a lot, and seemed satisfied with the information they provided. Without visual distractions, I guess radio is best for providing the hard information. My father is not an internet guy, and would not have a clue what or where to look for information online.

In the end, however, Tiger Droppings was THE go-to place for information. You guys had it all - reports from boots on the ground who made their rounds, and from observers posting from their homes and neighborhoods. Things were then posted and numbers crunched by the resident scientists. It reminded me of the pre-internet days when my father obtained better information from his ham radio network than from the media.

The next best thing for getting information was picking out the nuggets of info from the police scanner.