Important reason why the spin won't work this time.

[Pacifist Patriot]

Ironically enough, because of the media.

Journalists may have become complacent due to corporate holdings being more concerned with earnings than diligent reporting, but Hurricane Katrina presented us with an opportunity that has been missing for too long.

Reporters aren't sitting at press conferences or collecting faxes from press offices. They aren't embedded in a convoy with their every action being controlled by the military. Reporters are on the ground functioning as eye witnesses and they are appalled and outraged.

Sure some morons will swallow the spin. Some always will. But source bias isn't getting in the way this time and it's not taking too much effort to stumble upon a critical report from a truly moved reporter (or anchor).

I'm the first one to be pessimistic about corporate owned media, but this is truly something to behold.

[Melodybe]

1. Agreed, this ain't no 9/11

This time Bush's incompetance has been immediately pointed out.

With 9/11 their was no Bush criticism, now we have Kanye, Celine, and Oprah on our side.

Plus so many great others.

[despairing optimist]

2. Remember that Bush is damaged goods, and corporate MSM

want to distance themselves from what is an increasingly lost cause (Bush, PNAC, neocons) and cozy up to the conservative faction gaining strength in the Democratic party (DLC, the Clintons, Biden, etc.). There will be a major push driven by events in both Gulfs (stateside and Iraq) and the MSM to marginalize and eventually expel the Bush faction from power. By then the Bushistas hope that they'll have looted as much as they can so that the issue of holding power will be moot, however. I hope that they can be expropriated in the same way that Bush's grandfather was after WWII, when he was investigated and found to have laundered money for the German Nazi regime at the same time his son was a Navy pilot fighting the Nazis. Talk about snakes eating their young; even their own kin don't get in the way of accumulating wealth. How low can you go, right?

But in the end, it's all about money and power, and the MSM wants both. In order to retain and even improve its stature in society and in relation to other power centers, it does the bidding of the majority of the powerful. So the move away from supporting and apologizing for the Bushistas, which began shortly after his second election under dubious circumstances and gained steam throughout the year because of failures in Iraq and bad economic news, has now become a full canter. Gallop (and Gallup) soon to follow.

[paula777]

3. I think it's also because we ALL watched LIVE the lack of response at

first and then the slow and inadequate response. They can't deny something that we were all witness to. No amount of spin will erase that sick and helpless feeling we all felt.

[Mountainman]

4. I'm hoping it won't work because the media can see how low they have let

the country sink by capitulating to Bush and his administration.

Soon we will begin to see the death toll rise and know that if the media repeats the spin, they are part of the murders.

[malaise]

5. And here come those bankruptcy votes

which will expose them yet again. Does anyone have a list of who voted for and against the Bankruptcy Bill.