Re: Too Much Attention

The reason the effects of Hurricane Katrina is getting so much media attention is because it's a really big deal. This is arguable one of the biggest disasters since the San Francisco earthquakes in the early 1900's. The mayor of New Orleans commented that there may be as many as 10,000 dead in New Orleans alone. This hurricane wiped out thousands of homes and business. Thousands upon thousands of people are displaced, without shelter, clothes, or food. It effectively destroyed a major US city and strongly damaged many others. It caused gas prices to rise above $3.00 a gallon. This is not an issue that deserves only light media attention. The effects will be felt for months to come and many people haven't even begun to think about its long-term consequences. Where will the money come to rebuild mulitiple towns and cities? Where are all those people going to live until their hometown are once again habitable? What will be the short and long term economic consequences of this? And as far as other news not being covered, well, it is. I know that the front pages are full of the hurricane, however there are whole sections of newspapers and internet sites devoted to news in the rest of the world. What is happening in the rest of the nation and world is not being neglected, merely it is not as important to many people at the moment as Hurricane Katrina and its affects, and the media realizes this.