"Journalists
who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what
is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an
area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications
are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and
airports are covered with debris, and apparently have little interest
in finding out.
So they libel as a 'national
disgrace' the most monumental and successful disaster relief operation
in world history."
"A better question
-- which few journalists ask -- is why weren't the roughly 2,000
municipal and school buses in New Orleans utilized to take people
out of the city before Katrina struck?"
Journalists complain that
it took a whole week to do this. A former Air Force logistics officer
had some words of advice for us in the Fourth Estate on his blog,
Moltenthought:
"We do not yet have
teleporter or replicator technology like you saw on 'Star Trek'
in college between hookah hits and waiting to pick up your worthless
communications degree while the grown-ups actually engaged in
the recovery effort were studying engineering."
Source:
Jack Kelly, National Secuirty Writer for the Pittsburg Post
Gazette, September 12, 2005