CNN’s Daniel Sieberg In New Orleans: “I Wasn’t Prepared For What I Saw”

By Brian 

CNN’s Daniel Sieberg files a dispatch from New Orleans:

  “I’ll admit it. I wasn’t prepared for what I saw. And I can only begin to understand what it was like for the people who lived there.”

He said residents of the lower 9th ward described it “as looking like a movie set.”

“I’ve been in New Orleans only since Monday, and the pictures on TV really don’t do it justice.

Seeing it in person, I can’t seem to wrap my head around it. Even as I read over my notes, I can’t believe it.

Maybe it’ll get easier.

Somehow I doubt it.”

Here’s the rest. Let’s hope that reporters continue to return to New Orleans, and let’s hope that their reports receive the attention they deserve…

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