FEMA Wants No Photos Of Dead

[Gold9472]

FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...adlines-nation

From Reuters
9/7/2005

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. agency leading Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts said Tuesday that it does not want the news media to photograph the dead as they are recovered.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected journalists' requests to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims.

An agency spokeswoman said space was needed on the rescue boats.

"We have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media," the spokeswoman said in an e-mail.

[somebigguy]

Kind of reminds me of how the government doesn't want any photos of the war dead. We don't want people to believe that good old fashioned war and natural disasters at the hands of a bumbling dictator can lead to death do we?

[Gold9472]

They just want to sanitize everything. I mean, jesus... look back at 9/11... do you think we saw 5% of what happened that day? After that day? No way in hell...

[somebigguy]

They just want to sanitize everything. I mean, jesus... look back at 9/11... do you think we saw 5% of what happened that day? After that day? No way in hell...

Thats why they don't want to have any sort of investigation right now, we'll do that later after everything has been sanitized and people have forgotten what really happened.

[ehnyah]

[princesskittypoo]

i remember the bodies falling from the sky.

[PhilosophyGenius]

They just want to sanitize everything. I mean, jesus... look back at 9/11... do you think we saw 5% of what happened that day? After that day? No way in hell...

Not to mention Iraq or Palestine, where we only see a fraction.

[beltman713]

I've got a feeling the media is not going to go along with this one. I think they know there is going to be an attempt to cover up just how bad their (FEMA) screwup was.

[Gold9472]

I've got a feeling the media is not going to go along with this one. I think they know there is going to be an attempt to cover up just how bad their (FEMA) screwup was.

They seem to be on the ball... the reporters reporting from there anyway.

[princesskittypoo]

don't get your hopes up. they're hardballing it now but in a few weeks it's going to be puffball questions again.