Or NOT.
As US media actually remembered this week that they were reporters, and not just shills for the Bu$h Administration, they didn't completely get it right.
It seems that the reports of multiple rapes and murders supposedly occuring in various parts of New Orleans were simply made-up rumors and urban myths, according to the report in the Guardian, which, sadly, seems to do a better job of covering the US than the American press.
Here's an excerpt:
By the end of last week the media in Baton Rouge reported that evacuees from New Orleans were carjacking and that guns and knives were being seized in local shelters where riots were erupting.
The local mayor responded accordingly.
"We do not want to inherit the looting and all the other foolishness that went on in New Orleans," Kip Holden was told the Baton Rouge Advocate.
"We do not want to inherit that breed that seeks to prey on other people."
The trouble, wrote Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune is that "scarcely any of it was true - the police confiscated a single knife from a refugee in one Baton Rouge shelter".
"There were no riots in Baton Rouge. There were no armed hordes."
Oh well, at least they're criticizing the White House and FEMA for its' non-response, something that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago. I suppose that counts for something.
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