NYT plunges past Enquirer, goes Weekly World News
Both the scare headline and the lede are hysterial and misleading:
Carriers Are Stricken by Cancellations and Lack of Fuel
The airline industry felt the brunt of Hurricane Katrina yesterday, with some airports running low on jet fuel and carriers canceling hundreds of flights.
Perhaps it is just us, but when we read this we thought that some flight cancellations had taken place because of lack of fuel. That hasn’t happened. They are entirely separate events. Flight cancellations have occurred because airports have been closed. Fuel inventories have fallen because some refineries have been closed. But no flight cancellations have occurred because some refineries have been closed. Carriers have not in fact been “stricken” in the sense of having been grievously affected, laid low, or taken out of action by lack of fuel. (Technically, the headline would have been correct if the “and” were “or.”)
Do we sense an emerging theme among our infantilized Mainstream Media — that bad things are happening in the aftermath of Katrina because of someone’s poor planning, rather than because bad things happen sometime? Dare we guess who is to be cast in the role of an errant God the Father who is failing to care for his children?
We’d like to be proven once wrong in our expectation that the MSM will not sink ever lower. With every passing major event, we find ourselves still waiting.
August 31st, 2005 at 9:01 am
Old Soviet trick -propagandize and disrupt a well functioning societyu until the “natives seek your solution” -then move in -victory. Bush is in office -all bad things need to be exaggerated and kept in the news. It tends to move the mental sheep toward you and keeps the Bush guys busy reacting to your continual attacks.
Remember it takes a second for a skunk to pee, but forever to get rid of the smell!