Phone Script for Calls to CNN's Anderson Cooper and ABC's Brian Williams
Brian Williams at NBC: (212) 664-4444. The operator put me into voice mail where I left my message.
Anderson Cooper at CNN: (404) 827-2600 press 2 and someone will come on the phone to take your message. Nice person answered my call.
Hi, my name is ______________, and I live in (city, state).
Just after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the levees broke in New Orleans, (Brian Williams with NBC Nightly News/CNN’s Anderson Cooper) was all over that story. I was happy for his courage and the news coverage.
However, today, the news cycle is noticeably silent. A recent front page headline in the Gulf Coast’s daily paper, the Sun Herald, announced “Rural wells may be in danger: Buried debris full of contaminants.” To date, “virtually no cancer-causing chemicals” have been detected.
Virtually none? Good Lord! Who wants to drink, cook with, or bathe in water containing “virtually no cancer-causing chemicals”?
We need him to turn his attention back to Katrina and the aftermath of the storm. I am asking that he go back and report on these problems in Katrina land.
Thank you.
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1 comment:
the problems with contaminated water is that it ISNT contaminated until you test for each and every individual suspected contaminate. . .a while back, before Katrina, there was a news story about acetaminophen in the water supply along with levels of caffeine. Yeah, as my neighbors suffered with the sh*ts from drinking bad water in the wake of Katrina, no one at the local level could tell me if the water was safe to drink . . .Meanwhile a one year old and his mother had to be hospitalized out of state. ie no one at the fire department, police department, city department had answers about the water . . . as they were producing water under a generator during a black out. . . its a good question that deserves an answer. Half the time no one reads the fine print of the parish official journal (newspaper) where the state of LA or MS has said local water testing failed. That's the official notice you get when your water isn't safe to drink - that is , of course, your parish/county journal isn't under a blackout, too.
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