Remember all those people we heard about dying in the Superdome during hurricane Katrina?
I guess they must have gotten better. (HT: Clayton Cramer)
Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies. "I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalls the doctor saying. The real total was six, Beron said.
If the same ratio applies to the initial guesstimates of 10,000 dead, the real number is closer to 300.
Clayton Cramer notes:
Back on September 6, I quoted a number of news stories with horrifying first-hand accounts, quoting identifiable eyewitnesses. I am deeply troubled by this: either reporters were making stuff up, or they were quoting liars--and multiple liars who told roughly similar stories of what was going on in the Superdome--or there's a coverup going on now. Either way, this doesn't speak well for the journalism profession.
A conspiracy theorist might even suspect that stories casting a bad light on the feds in general, and President Bush in particular, are subject to less fact-checking and examination than is typical for other stories.
Especially those that might show the opposite.
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