Times-Picayune editorial

Again I applaud the men and women of the Times-Picayune. If you have been following my blog or the real news, you probably know that the Times-Picayune is the newspaper in downtown New Orleans that had to evacuate their headquarters in the aftermath of the hurricane and flooding, yet still managed to keep publishing a least a web-based version of the paper. Their staff kept coming to work, kept covering the story and kept getting the news to the people who needed it.

With that in mind, the Sunday edition of the Times-Picayune has a very impressive editorial in the form of an open letter to the President. Its main theme is that New Orleans has been and continues to be accessible, unlike what FEMA and Homeland Sercurity have cited when talking about the delay response time.

"...there were journalists, including some who work for The Times-Picayune, going in and out of the city via the Crescent City Connection. On Thursday morning, that crew saw a caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers headed into town to bring food, water and supplies to a dying city.

Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets. Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday, and his efforts were the focus of a "Today" show story Friday morning.

Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent. Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach." -excerpt from the Times-Picayune editorial

This editorial is a must read.