Louisiana Flood Devastation, Media Coverage Limitations
Louisiana is experiencing a thousand-year flood event that has caused massive devastation across the region. Television and photography fail to capture the true scale of the disaster, as the vastness of the water and the atmosphere of the destruction do not translate well to a screen. Comparisons are drawn to the 9th Ward in New Orleans and previous hurricanes where visual media struggled to convey the reality on the ground.
louisiana· flood· television· photography· 9th ward· new orleans· hurricane
00:00 People today are not educated. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where I'm stunned by that gag. I'm John C Devorak At least I try I did when you're shouting a gag like that. Yes, it's pretty hard to even track it That's why sure what you said it doesn't really matter is better than five times the dog or something yeah Exactly what it was 1ky The thousand-year flood oh Referring to ky jelly ah I don't know where your mind is today
01:02 But I'm... KY means Kentucky or Jelly, one of the two. I'm with the poor people of Louisiana This is a, you know... It's out of control. I really and well of course it i don't enjoy the cart I should probably put in the next newsletter if I remember what's that? The cartoon somebody photoshopped like the floods and this again his car with Obama on top of the car with the golf club. No, haven't seen that one. So he hitting off the top of a car but this very funny so what's really interesting about about this and we talked about on the last show A flood, this type of epic disaster doesn't translate to television. It just doesn't so the TV has to resort to these little human interest stories but the larger view it doesn't even fit on the screen you just wouldn't be able to see the devastation but of course we have lots of producers in the area and is very very bad. Oh that's kind of... now that you mention
02:01 So I went and visited Florida. It was like 10 years ago, there's this massive hurricane that hit the East Coast in Florida it was one of the Whoppers and i went to Florida to visit to look at this mess And it is true. Television, you cannot catch the mess. I've noticed this on a number of... Even when we take a lot of photos, as a photographer sometimes, you can not capture certain things. It's too big and too vast and if you don't have wind or anything… I went to the 9th Ward also in New Orleans and you can't
