Here's a first-hand account from a person on the ground in New Orleans who is seeing a big difference between the story the media is telling and what he's actually seeing there.
Link: interdictor: Robert LeBlanc.
"Some of what is being portrayed among the media is happening and is terrible, but it is among a very small group of people, not the majority. They make it seem like New Orleans has somehow taken the atmosphere of the mobs in Mogadishu portrayed in the book and movie "Black Hawk Down," which is making volunteers (including us) more hesitant and rescue attempts more difficult. As a result, people are dying."