Denys,

My wife is always complaining that the media is now more interested in
making news and getting ratings than reporting what is really happening.

One of the problems here in the UK, when it comes to the reporting of
things in the USA (and other countries), is that our news services tend
to get their information from a string of ?freelancers? who each have to
'ramp up' their stories to make them more sellable. Bit like the party
game where you pass a message from one attendee to another and see how
different it when you get it back.

After the reporting on how people behaved during 9/11 something did not
feel right in what we were hearing over here about Katrina. Thank you
for shedding some light on what was REALLY happening there.

regards, 
  
Robert W.Mills 
MIS Systems Development Manager 
Windsong Services 
+44 (0)20 8309 3604 


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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Katrina: what the media missed

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