New Orleans Ten Years After Katrina

Local ABC affiliate 10News is running a promo for tonight's special report entitled, Katrina: 10 Years After The Storm. The promo spot has a lively jazz music background, and the story features Robin Roberts, with appearances by Harry Connick, Jr., and Drew Brees.

I wonder if they will have former Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin on? Probably not, because they would have to travel to the federal lockup in Texarkana, Texas for an interview. That's Nagin's home until 2024, because of his corruption conviction.

I seriously doubt they will even mention two-term Republican Governor Bobby Jindal. By vastly expanding the school voucher program, Jindal has improved education in the state.

Other than cherry-picked accounts, it's sure to be an inspiring, phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes, feel good story. Robin Roberts is a cancer survivor, and New Orleans is a storm survivor. I can guarantee that the story will also be a vehicle for another legacy media outlet to bash President George W. Bush. Old media have long pushed the idea that Bush 43 offered a desultory response to the disaster, because racism.

ABC should take the racism theme and run with it, and connect Bush/Katrina/racism to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. It will take much effort to clean up Obama's tar baby.

I shan't watch tonight. I have no use for Robin Roberts, who was likeable enough before she declared her lesbianism.

So why would I even bother commenting on something I won't watch? I just like criticizing local news affiliates. 10News earned its Idiocy in Journalism award for sending Natasha Zouves to stand in a traffic island, wearing a cocktail dress, to report on traffic conditions. Her dankness literally stopped traffic.

Anyway, every ten minutes, 10News runs the ABC Katrina promo, then goes back to the hard news. Their top news story is about an armed robbery at a New Orleans restaurant. They keep calling it an "upscale" restaurant. Why the modifier in front of the word, 'restaurant?' Is it to imply that these rich people won't miss the stolen money all that much? Why not use the term, "restaurant full of terrified customers," instead? I wonder if 10News producers noted the ironic juxtaposition of the Katrina promo and the restaurant robbery. Anyway, it's probably too late for Robin Roberts to have the traumatized restaurant patrons on the show tonight. They would have given excellent balance to the story.

Will Roberts mention the fact that The Big Easy will be destroyed again, and it's only a matter of time? New Orleans sits below sea level. Eventually, the sea is going to reclaim the city. It reminds me of Professor Falken's lesson to David in the movie, War Games.

"Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David."

Nature knows when to give up.