"Many on Miss. Coast Feel Overshadowed"

[GreenPartyVoter]

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Nicki Henderson has had plenty of reasons to be angry since Hurricane Katrina destroyed her Biloxi home, but it was a simple news item about dislocated dolphins that really made her blood boil.

Henderson lost her temper when she logged on to her computer and spotted this headline: "New Orleans Dolphins Find New Home." She knew the dolphins actually came from a hurricane-ravaged marine park in Gulfport, not New Orleans.

The headline writer's error reinforced her belief - shared by many on Mississippi's Gulf Coast - that New Orleans has gotten a disproportionate share of the news coverage and the nation's attention in the aftermath of the storm, now more than four months gone.

There is a growing sense the catastrophic damage along Mississippi's 70-mile stretch of coastline is being treated as a mere footnote to the story in New Orleans, which was ravaged by flooding.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20060117/D8F63GFO2.html

[roguevalley]

1. I can only imagine her misery. That picture makes me shudder.

God bless them all, everywhere.

[Horse with no Name]

2. I am beginning to think that isn't an accident

With the way New Orleans has been emphasized.
It is a deliberate attempt to minimize the storm damage.
It is much easier to sweep one city under the rug than it is to sweep hundreds of communities.
Thanks again to corporate media!

[misanthrope]

3. Some of those Mississippi residents...

..believe it's no accident either, but they think it's because NOLA is a "black town" and the "lib'rul media" just wants to discriminate against "good, God-fearin' white folk" like those in the Magnolia State.

Not all, just some of the redder ones.

[QC]

4. Do you have any evidence for that...

or are you just engaging in stereotyping again?

Whatever the reason, these people are coorect in believing that the Mississippi coast has been forgotten. They are still suffering terribly there, but one would never know it from the national media.

[misanthrope]

7. You mean other than...

...the ones I've heard say it to me? I live in a town that has been inundated with Katrina survivors. I've also heard some locals say the same.

And if you'll look, you'll notice I didn't say "all." Just pointing out that people will extrapolate the same scenario in various ways according to their predilections.

In all likelihood, the answers to the questions about national perceptions of Katrina and its aftermath are more complex than we realize.

[Horse with no Name]

5. actually they would probably cringe if they realized

that the real truth lies in that there are a great deal of people in this country don't give a shit BECAUSE NOLA is a "black town".
It makes it easier for the good white folk to sleep in their McMansions and drive to soccer practice in their SUV's.
They might have to search their consciences a little deeper if they realized that white folk just like them were living in tents.
Of course the librul media doesn't want folks to actually think about stuff like that.
So they make it easy to ignore and show more pictures of black looters.

[dsc]

6. actually while she is correct about the attention

she is actually getting far more funding than NOLA is. Mississippi was able to get something like 6 times as much funding per person as Louisiana.