Did anyone else notice how the incident in New Orleans just DISSAPPEARED?

Question

It was covering our news and papers and all of a sudden it just became a nonmedia issue?

Answer 1

What is sad is all the people who have not been helped and have been displaced. Another school year starting and schools not functioning, and the powers to be not moving forward to help the people of that area. Then on top of it all look how other countries who have far less, can rebuild and get their areas back on their feet and back to normal so much quicker than here in the US. For being a first world power, that power goes to people's pocketbooks and not to rebuilding our country. We have so much more fraud and corruption in government and the secret room handshakes and money passing to companies to do the work, who just are not doing it and no one is checking out how government and private donations have been spent. It has made me cry to see so many emotionally and physically suffering from this disaster and no medical or emotional support either. As the global climate change continues, what if this happened to anyone of us and our families. We are wiped out of everything we own, have nothing, no job, no money and have to relocate and start over with just the shirt on our backs. How many of us could cope and rebuild our lives in a year. Look all over the news of these mothers who have everything, money the home, etc, and fall apart from the pressure to keep up their appearances or status, and fall into depression, pills and some take their lives. Then people expect this area which were hard working, not the wealthy or rich who could just think the banks are insured we still will have what he had in the bank. Those who lived paycheck to paycheck now had nothing and still have to pay back creditors and credit cards, car loans, ect, and don't even have the car or home etc any longer. This is where it is sad. Rome wasn't built in a day, but for some reason many think these people who have lost family members, children etc, should just go back to life as normal. They can't and we shouldn't forget. This is the sad thing about the current situation in the world here today gone tomorrow, the instant news, but the lives that are in the news are not a instant fix and with the current short attention span, most don't care. I am lucky to live in California where we haven't had a major disaster lately, I was flooded by rains a couple of years ago. It took me over a year and a half to recoupe, rebuild and replace what I had lost. Insurance didn't cover even one tenth. I was lucky because my income and life could go on. These people had none of the above. I say to most, try and find a job in a new city where no one knows you and you don't have a job history. I know people who moved near me from another state, it took them two years to find a good job, they had to work at a McDonalds, that's right a husband and wife with college degrees couldn't just move here and find a job in their field in over a year. Now three years later they work at a bank and in an office but make less than where they lived. Their jobs were outsourced and in their area there just we no jobs. For them without any loss of home, family or having to keep paying car payments, house payments or the utilities when they didn't even live or have the car any longer was a struggle. So fixing New Orleans isn't going to happen because politicians on both side don't really care to do so. It didn't happen in their area, so they didn't loose the votes to keep their jobs and bottom line could care less. The United States is becoming a third world country where 10% of the population will own and run the companies and wealth and the rest will live below the poverty line. A sad reality, but the numbers are there however the media and the people who own them don't report this, but if you know how to research, the numbers are a reality. So I do notice and I do still send help, we give all we can, and continue to write to those who can help rebuild, people like Ellen and Oprah are doing alot as are people who have wealth and come from that area, however it's a dead media issue.

Answer 2

Well, there's only so much coverage they can do until it either becomes redundant or viewers get bored and/or depressed by it.

The hurricane revealed the problems New Orleans has had for several decades at least. High crime rate, high poverty, poor school system, etc.. It wasn't always like this. I lived in the eastern part of New Orleans when I was a child in the 70s. It was actually a nice place to live then. Then the problems with crime and political corruption erupted. My family moved out and headed to Slidell, a suburb of NO, in '78. When I became a young adult, it got to the point where I wouldn't venture into New Orleans unless it was absolutely necessary.

I live in Houston now. Yes, I've noticed an increase in license plates from Louisiana. And there's been some increase in crime as well here.

Only time will tell if Houston will see Katrina evacuees moving back to Louisiana, especially the ones who are troublemakers, like the ones who are career criminals or those who think the goodies from the government are never-ending.

Answer 3

What incident? The hurricane. Well it has been a year and the same ol stuff is happening.

Sad to say that crime is up over even it's pre-hurricane levels. The illegals went for work, the drug gangs followed soon after and bam there ya go.

There are still thousands of people being given rent and such after all this time. They did not work or have a home in NO, but are being paid to live in Houston, and all over. They wont get jobs and keep waiting for the govt to build them a new place to live in NO.

They need to get on with their lives. The politics of NO will not let it ever rebuild the way they could - to have a great city. It is more important that it be a "chocolate" city like before.

Answer 4

If you are referring to Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath, no one outside of the area affected got any 'news' that was remotely accurate. Now the media has moved on to other 'stories' or groups they can victimize, so the lazy news viewers won't hear anything about it anymore. I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and we were probably beaten much worse than New Orleans in the storm. It's just that we weren't such juicy subjects for exploitation like New Orleanians were. I am so glad of that!

Answer 5

Most humans on right here appear to be blaming Obama however the equal is occurring right here within the UK. I have spotted for many years that the rate of cheese goes via the roof. Clothing remains to be low cost if you are going to buy from the supermarkets considering they get it from the Bangladesh factories like the person who collapsed. The lady that used to be trapped for seventeen days used to be on £forty a month, to double the pay of the ones staff could broaden the rate of a T blouse through simply two pence. Makes you appreciate how spoilt we're.

Answer 6

Yes, it started disappearing right after Bush got the word that he screwed up by ignoring the problem, while he partied. When he did wake up to the political damage he was doing to himself for being AWOL (Absent Without Leave) again, he promised two billion bucks to fix the New Orleans problem. And then the problem just kind of dropped off the table.
The reason for the sudden collapse of the promise was the sound of 50,000 conservative's mouth dropping open at the same time. It was loud "pop" like the one I get in my brain once in while.
I happened to be standing with a conservative at that moment and he clutched his gut and backed over to a chair and kind of fell down backwards. I thought he was doubled over with concern for the people on the TV screen who were caught in the hurricane and trapped in New Orleans waiting for bus's that never came.
But no, later I asked the conservative how he felt and he said "Did you hear that figure, two billion dollars?"
I wanted to spit on him.

Answer 7

I don't think it's disappeared at all. Brad Pitt did a tour of the area recently and is heading a contest to find someone to build eco-friendly residences.
Also, there's been many stories about crime rates rising through the roof in New Orleans lately. Many more murders and shootings this year than they had in the same length of time last year.

Answer 8

I live in Baton Rouge. The state capital of Louisiana which is just one hour from New Orleans. My mother works for FEMA so I never hear the end of it. Not from my mother, but because everyone who knows that my mother works for FEMA. It's still in the news here as well. It's just old news in the rest of the country I guess. We still have people living off FEMA, and expect to keep on doing it. I see no reason for this to keep going on. They have had plenty of time to get back on their feet. I just bought a time share in New Orleans. Things are getting back to normal down there. You just have to stay away from the 9th ward. It still looks like h e l l down there. Houses blown down broken into pieces that look like piles of matchsticks. No running water. Unfit to live in. I haven't heard of any shootings latley. The last cop I heard of getting shot was about a month ago. I think it's getting better.

Answer 9

You have to be more specific. Which incident? The hurricane, the flooding, the riots and looting? They didn't just dissappear, they are "old news." There is a lot more going on in the world than NO trying to get their act together. There are no more deaths, and it is up to the city to get their thumb out of there butt to clean up the mess.

Answer 10

The media got bored with it. And since the media wasn't showing it anymore, we all lost interest, since there were so many other stories in the news. After all, we just HAD to see pictures of Branjelina's baby, didn't we? And since the public lost interest, the politicians knew they didn't have to concentrate on it so much, so they let it slide, too. You still hear occasional stories, like "human interest" stories about wonderful children raising money for Hurricane Katrina victims, but for the most part, that's it.