I have also seen "some" coverage, and I'm a neighbor to Iowa, the most 
recent being an article in the newspaper about an animal shelter gathering 
all the dispalced farm animals!    But it's not been the nightly 
sensational coverage that New Orleans received, or that the I35 bridge 
collapse received.  Everyone is pitching in to help, nobody is shooting or 
looting, and that's not national news for very long.

John Lee


At 03:22 PM 7/7/08 -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>Howard writes:
>
> > I think the media execs were the ones not interested.  News is no longer
> > about news, but rather about ratings, and everybody knows that the good
> > folks in Iowa (as opposed to those awful and decadent folks in NOLA) are
> > not ratings magnets.
>
>The fundamental problem with Craig's complaints and your analysis, Howard, is
>that neither is true.
>
>Thirty minutes after reading Craig's bit of nonsense that began this 
>thread, the
>Sunday version of NBC Nightly News ran a lengthy piece on the Cedar Rapids
>floods last night, with a tour of the city's damages and recovery being given
>by a local city councilman.
>
>I suspect the reason that more people don't see the "MSM"'s reports is that
>they simply don't bother to watch them, but would rather take refuge in their
>own peculiar prejudices, never being ones to let facts be a barrier to 
>strongly
>held opinions, no matter how strange.
>
>Wirt Atmar
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