{"id":1954,"date":"2005-10-27T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2005-10-27T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:47:30","slug":"the-media-fails-again-florida-disaster-under-reported-says-raw-storys-alexandrovna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"The Media Fails Again, Florida Disaster Under-Reported Says RAW STORY&#8217;s Alexandrovna&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WilmaFloridaLines.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">Apparently the situation isn&#8217;t dire <i>enough<\/i>. At least not enough to merit the coverage deserved by the media in the wake of Wilma&#8217;s devastation in Florida. Either that, or there&#8217;s not enough whipping wind and rain to rate full Multi-Colored-Slicker Team Coverage (read: pointlessly stupid photo ops) for the cable &#8220;news&#8221; nets to cover the story. Or maybe it&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s brother Jeb&#8217;s state, and the Administration doesn&#8217;t have a governor to conveniently blame for their own failure to do <i>anything<\/i> right.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever&#8230;Our friend Larisa Alexandrovna of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RawStory.com\">RAW STORY<\/a> is caught in the mess. She lives in South Florida. She filed <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2005\/Raw_reporter_in_hurricane_zone_says_1026.html\">this report on the situation<\/a> from a pay phone near her home&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">WEST PALM BEACH &#8212; Many residents of Broward County, Florida remain without food, water or medical supplies days after being pummeled by a stronger-than-expected Hurricane Wilma.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.RawStory.com\">RAW STORY<\/a>&#8216;s Larisa Alexandrovna, who lives in the county, said the situation is far worse than the mainstream press is reporting. She believes part of this is due to the fact that residents are without phone service and largely unable to reach the outside world.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCalling into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RawStory.com\">RAW STORY<\/a> from a payphone at the West Palm Beach airport, since home and cell phone service have been adversely affected, Larisa explained, \u201cWe can&#8217;t call out. No one&#8217;s covering this because they think if there were problems people would call, but we can&#8217;t.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the situation isn&#8217;t dire enough. At least not enough to merit the coverage deserved by the media in the wake of Wilma&#8217;s devastation in Florida. Either that, or there&#8217;s not enough whipping wind and rain to rate full Multi-Colored-Slicker Team Coverage (read: pointlessly stupid photo ops) for the cable &#8220;news&#8221; nets to cover the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}