This Is A Call....
There's something that's been gnawing at me. I've been trying to research this for a while and have come up blank. Perhaps someone with more savvy, time or resources would like to pick up the ball. What I think would be needed are transcripts from CNN 9/2 and 9/3, (specifically Aaron Brown's show) along with reporting from several other sources.It was either Friday 9/2 or possibly Saturday 9/3. I was flipping through the various news channels watching the Hurricane Katrina coverage. Aaron Brown of CNN was in full race-baiting mode. One of the reports featured was a report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The report was supposedly a live update from Charity Hospital in New Orleans. There were visuals of exhausted doctors and cluttered conditions. The theme of the report was that doctors and patients were evacuated from private Tulane hospital, but not from the municipal Charity Hospital. The implication was that patients were still waiting. Aaron Brown kept emphasizing poor city hospital vs. Private Tulane. One got one treatment, the other a different treatment and then reflected "I can't imagine why that would be." When of course we know what he wanted everyone to imagine.
Later that night I caught a re-broadcast of Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox News. The show was originally broadcast earlier than Aaron Brown's show. O'Reilly was talking with some state or local government official who was in Baton Rouge. Mr. O'Reilly asked this person twice specifically about the patients at Charity Hospital. Both times the offical confirmed that the patients indeed had been evacuated earlier that day.
Perhaps the government official was mistaken. There were plenty of communication issues. Perhaps I misunderstood the reporting. Details on the CNN report weren't that intriguing until after I saw the O'Reilly re-broadcast. Or, perhaps the CNN broadcast was erroneous or intentionally misleading. I know there were timing differences between the two evacuations, but from what I have been able to determine, the issue had been resolved when the CNN report aired. Whatever the case, the timeline regarding the evacuation of Charity Hospital, Tulane Hospital and CNN's reporting of these events may be an issue worth looking into for some industrious blogger.
posted by Nordeaster | 12:22 PM
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I could not help but think that nordeaster framed me for this answer. Charity Hospital started their evacuation on Sept 1, halted it due to gun fire, and by 930 pm Fri Sept 2, had evacuated all 2200 persons inside. By contrast, the decision to evacuate the Ivory Tower of Tulane was not determined until Fri Sept 2. Tues Aug 31 the possibility of an evacuation was discussed with staff and patients, but again, the actual decision was not made until Friday Sept 2.
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