Katrina - Human Toll

October 08, 2005

Victims Of Katrina Still Waiting For FEMA To Help Them

Geraldo Rivera spoke to a volunteer medical examiner in New Orleans, Bronson Lutz, who had some serious complaints about FEMA's handling of the dead bodies left to decompose for weeks after Katrina. Lutz claimed that FEMA has been very slow to collect the dead and very slow to identify and release them. 10/8/05


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September 28, 2005

Fox Wants To Change Your Perceptions About NOLA

Brit Hume claimed tonight, 9/28/05, that all those rapes and murders in the Superdome and Convention Center didn't happen and in fact, things were not that bad in those nightmarish days of waiting in New Orleans. Steve Brown opened his report about the public's misconceptions with this line.

"In the early dark days, truth at times was a casualty."
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September 26, 2005

What is the FOX policy on showing dead bodies?

Dan Springer reported from Beaumont TX today 9/27/05 on Special Report about 5 hurricane-related deaths there. Two adults and three children died, apparently of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator in their powerless home.

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September 21, 2005

FEMA was ready - for Florida

I came across this article while looking for something else.

Bush Monitoring Katrina Landfall
"The Bush administration is ready to leap into action with help and resources as soon as Tropical Storm Katrina hits land, the White House said Thursday."

Oops, I forgot the dateline: August 25, 2005, MIAMI

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September 20, 2005

FOX News Racism

I don't like to play the race card but there's just no other word for it once you consider which Katrina stories have been covered and which ones have not on Hannity & Colmes.

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