July 21, 2008 - PPM - A Flood of Poor Press

This week’s PET PEEVE MONDAY concerns the biased media coverage of the IOWA FLOODS.

I watched the news coverage of the massive flooding in the Midwest including the devastation of the entire city of Cedar Rapids.

What amazed me is not what we saw, but what we didn't see:

We didn’t see looting.
We didn't see street violence.
We didn't see people sitting on their rooftops waiting for the government to come and save them.
We didn't see people ignoring evacuation orders.

We didn't see people blaming a government conspiracy to blow up the levees.
We didn't see the US Senators or the Governor of Iowa crying on TV.

We didn't see Hollywood organizing benefits to raise money for people to rebuild Cedar Rapids. Where were Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?

Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?

When will we hear Iowa Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a "vanilla" Iowa, because that's the way God wants it? (Mayor Ray Nagin)

Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people?

How come its now a month later and no one is covering the Iowa flooding?

My PET PEEVE is about how no one in the media has the guts to acknowledge that TRUE RACISM is COLOR BLIND.