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(OP) User ID: 46877 United States 09/15/2008 06:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? No, I don't believe it is. There's a reason why the Mayor clamped down on the press and why she won't allow them access to some of the areas. I loathe censorship. This isn't good...is it? Quoting: <October> |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 504005 United States 09/15/2008 06:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? [link to www.youtube.com] check out this video they don't want you to see either. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 406673 United States 09/15/2008 06:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? It's like Katrina all over again, the only difference is this time, we'll be informed far less than we were during Katrina. They are covering their butts and screw the folks suffering. Both sad and frightening. |
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(OP) User ID: 46877 United States 09/15/2008 06:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? Here's another oddity. The Galveston Daily News site allows for comments to be posted. The link below takes one to a page for comments, on IKE information exchange. Although all the other blogs SHOW the comments, the one on the Ike info site does NOT! This is what appears: SEPTEMBER 15 02:48 PM in News Ike information exchange By Mark Collette | Permalink | Comments (11) Everywhere, people who fled the island want to know about their property, apartment complexes, island landmarks, and other information. You can post a comment on this blog entry to supply information or to ask a question. Someone who is reading might be able to answer. For relatives of islanders: If you are trying to reach property owners and/or relatives that may have stayed in their home during the storm, call Galvestons emergency operations center at 409-765-3710. Essential business owners: If you own an essential business on the island such as a gas station or food outlet, call Jeff Sjostrom with the Galveston Economic Development Partnership at 409-457-6335. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments Post a comment By debbieb on Sep. 15 at 1:16 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Sandy Baker on Sep. 15 at 1:49 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Mary Walker-Chyle on Sep. 15 at 2:01 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By J Ryan on Sep. 15 at 2:34 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By G Walker on Sep. 15 at 3:40 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By liz casillas on Sep. 15 at 4:03 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By bret on Sep. 15 at 4:12 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By bret on Sep. 15 at 4:17 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By sherry pelt on Sep. 15 at 4:22 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By cindy smith on Sep. 15 at 4:30 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Louise Henderson on Sep. 15 at 5:10 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Add your comments You must be a registered END What did the Galveston residents write that we are not reading? [link to galvestondailynews.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 504005 United States 09/15/2008 06:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? This is the email from my sister. Her hubby is in Houston. She is the one who sent me the video link. ******************* "john just called me from houston. he went back this morning. fema is apparently giving out generators. all places are still without power. the billboard signs look like a giant has sat o nthem and bent them over. all the gas stations are closed and the ones that are open have a huge line with the folks who need gas from the generators. his work, their shop, had 3-4 feet of water/oil in it. there is a ring around the building, inside & out. in the bolivar pennisula (its over by galveston/surf side/crystal beach) they have grounded all flights. wont allow anyone to see anything. no news, nothing. johnthinks that there are actual bodies laying around. they wont even let the mayor in. apparently homeland security is there with a huge hand on everything. it'll be interesting to see what their reason is..... |
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The_Venerable User ID: 412220 United States 09/15/2008 06:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? Everyone remember that typhoon that hit Myanmar this summer and how everyone was bashing them for keeping people out and lying about their death toll? The US government is doing the exact same thing, as always. |
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(OP) User ID: 46877 United States 09/15/2008 06:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? Oh, that made me ill, too, Venerable. I can't imagine that there were so few deaths with Ike when so many chose to remain on Galveston. They aren't trying to fix the Katrina mishaps. They are just trying to keep the media out so it can't be reported this time. Quoting: The_Venerable 412220Everyone remember that typhoon that hit Myanmar this summer and how everyone was bashing them for keeping people out and lying about their death toll? The US government is doing the exact same thing, as always. |
RealizeFirst User ID: 461501 United States 09/15/2008 07:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? Quoting: Pollyannuh I don't know - maybe something like this: Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: national spotlight -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My friend got off the island with pictures today and they are sick. Bodies everywhere! The numbers on the island are 4000+. Where is the national media....where is the outcry. By this time in Katrina there were telethons...and here nothing. The pictures have been sent to Nytimes, cnn, etc and nobody has posted about them. Mark my words tomorrow there will be headlines, and if not in the papers than in the blogs because this is a higher death count than Katrina and 9/11 combined. This is sick...and it is true. On the island they are telling them not to talk so as to give them time to notfy the families..but a national spotlight is needed. This is bigger then the DOWJones and wall street. This is huge. [link to www.khou.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 426925 United States 09/15/2008 07:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? We appear to have moved into a communist ruled country. It squashes the news media (controls it), takes over private businesses (everything in frannie and freddie NOW BELONG TO USA GOV (ie: your house!!!) |
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Forum Administrator 09/15/2008 07:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? Do I even have to bother to look and see if the Mayor is a Republican?....I'm sure I don't....btw....reporters don't need to be bugging city employees when they are obviously dealing with a crisis. She is right, they are busy with more important things, or should be, so leave em alone. ____________________________________________________ E-mail anytime [email protected] Inquiring about a ban?, include the IP address found here. [link to www.showmemyip.com] Ooooh, see the fire is sweepin' Our very streets today... Burns like a red coal carpet, Mad bulls lost the way... War, children, it's just a shot away...it's just a shot away.... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 504055 United States 09/15/2008 07:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? This was posted on the KHOU forum. "Granted, it's all second hand information but we have heard from a local fireman, a local policeman, and a resident still on the island (that identified 2 dead themselves) that the death toll is extremely high... and that they are just sitting on it until the hysteria dies down. The first account comes from a fireman on the island that said he had never seen so many dead bodies before. The second from a friends boyfriend who happens to be a police officer, who has said they have gathered so many dead and are keeping it hush for now. And the third from a resident on the island that discovered some dead in one of the local businesses on 23rd. I don't wish to add to the hysteria, but I find it horrible that the news is being complicate in not reporting the death tolls to the public. It's criminal." [link to www.khou.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 504055 United States 09/15/2008 07:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? They aren't trying to fix the Katrina mishaps. They are just trying to keep the media out so it can't be reported this time. Quoting: The_Venerable 412220Everyone remember that typhoon that hit Myanmar this summer and how everyone was bashing them for keeping people out and lying about their death toll? The US government is doing the exact same thing, as always. If Homeland Security is there and not letting other Media and Officials in then there is more going on than FEMA's reputation. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 504055 United States 09/15/2008 07:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? Didn't someone post something about a bio-research lab in Texas that was underwater from the storm? Hope it wasn't Galveston... Quoting: MARBURG MUTATION 499261So far I would say that is the best candadate. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 46877 United States 09/15/2008 07:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? Oh, my dear God. A.C., please let us know if you have any updates from your sister, and thank you. This is the email from my sister. Her hubby is in Houston. She is the one who sent me the video link. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 504005******************* "john just called me from houston. he went back this morning. fema is apparently giving out generators. all places are still without power. the billboard signs look like a giant has sat o nthem and bent them over. all the gas stations are closed and the ones that are open have a huge line with the folks who need gas from the generators. his work, their shop, had 3-4 feet of water/oil in it. there is a ring around the building, inside & out. in the bolivar pennisula (its over by galveston/surf side/crystal beach) they have grounded all flights. wont allow anyone to see anything. no news, nothing. johnthinks that there are actual bodies laying around. they wont even let the mayor in. apparently homeland security is there with a huge hand on everything. it'll be interesting to see what their reason is..... |
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Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 287257 United States 09/15/2008 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? Do I even have to bother to look and see if the Mayor is a Republican?....I'm sure I don't....btw....reporters don't need to be bugging city employees when they are obviously dealing with a crisis. She is right, they are busy with more important things, or should be, so leave em alone. Quoting: SHRyou don't get it Palin was in Galveston having an affair with the major while she was pregnant with her 14 year old daughter's kid and she LIED about it !!!! "If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be." - Brian Eno |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 46877 United States 09/15/2008 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? IF, and that's a big IF, this news of huge numbers of deaths is real, God help them. I can't imagine what the loved ones of the people on the island must be going through if they don't know whether their relatives are dead or alive. God help them. This was posted on the KHOU forum. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 504055"Granted, it's all second hand information but we have heard from a local fireman, a local policeman, and a resident still on the island (that identified 2 dead themselves) that the death toll is extremely high... and that they are just sitting on it until the hysteria dies down. The first account comes from a fireman on the island that said he had never seen so many dead bodies before. The second from a friends boyfriend who happens to be a police officer, who has said they have gathered so many dead and are keeping it hush for now. And the third from a resident on the island that discovered some dead in one of the local businesses on 23rd. I don't wish to add to the hysteria, but I find it horrible that the news is being complicate in not reporting the death tolls to the public. It's criminal." [link to www.khou.com] |
The_Venerable User ID: 412220 United States 09/15/2008 08:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Galveston's Mayor ORDERED all city employees NOT to TALK to news reporters! MEDIA BLACKOUT! What are they hiding??? They aren't trying to fix the Katrina mishaps. They are just trying to keep the media out so it can't be reported this time. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 504055Everyone remember that typhoon that hit Myanmar this summer and how everyone was bashing them for keeping people out and lying about their death toll? The US government is doing the exact same thing, as always. If Homeland Security is there and not letting other Media and Officials in then there is more going on than FEMA's reputation. There is definitely a national media coverup going on too. I went to all the major news sites online last night and they all had EXACTLY the same headline. "2,000 rescued" How convenient. |