Originally Posted By: wfaulk
no one is benefiting from having someone a thousand miles away watch the news constantly.

Perhaps indirectly they are. I'm sure that the improved attitude to disaster recovery from the authorities this time, plus the improved attitude to levee maintenance in recent years, is at least partly due to the fire that got lit under the people in question due to every viewer of CNN -- not just the New Orleaneans on the ground -- being able to see quite how badly they dropped the ball.

Peter