Reply #67: Look at this passage from the interview:

[tblue37]

Listen, here's the problem that happened in Katrina. There was no situational awareness, and that means that we weren't getting good, solid information from people who were on the ground, and we need to do a better job. One reason we weren't is because communications systems got wiped out, and in many cases we were relying upon the media, who happened to have better situational awareness than the government. And when you have the media better situational awareness than the government, the American people are saying, "Wait a minute. What is happening? How come the federal Government and state government and local governments couldn't do a better job of providing information necessarily so that people could react better?"

Someone needs to tell that idiot that if the communications channels were destroyed so that no one could get good information, then the media would have been in the same blind situation. If the media were getting information, then the government should have been able to get at least as much information! And if it's true that the media were the only ones with information, then the fools running the government should have been glued to their radios and TV sets!