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Originally Posted by Type941
'this just in'.
Apparently CNN just filed a lawsuit against the government because the government told them not to show victims' bodies floating in the water. So. Good on them for doing that.
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The entire gulf is crowded with news teams both on the ground and in the air. Even with just basic cable i've got 5 channels of 24 hour non stop images (CNN included) from the disaster area, and on top of that every regular news program on the network channels devotes a significant amount of every broadcast in covering the story. Believe me when i say "Bush and CO" or anyone else for that matter could ever conceal the true death toll even if they wanted to, which of course they do not.
I have to ask, why is it so important to you to have closeup images of the victims? Are you keeping a personal count or something? Did you ever think that the families of the victims may not want to see their the bodies of their loved ones plastered on the nightly news and the internet over and over? Don't you have any respect for the dead man?
As for your 10,000 figure you do realize this was basicly a wild guess by the mayor of NO and totally unsupported by any hard data, right? Don't get me wrong, i'm not dismissing his gut feelings given during a very tense time, but so far it looks to be highly exaggerated, and thank God for that.
Make no mistake though. There will eventually be an extremely accurate body count, whatever that number turns out to be.