I think the coverage of the storms going on is Asia are getting comparable coverage by the media when you compare the size of the disaster. We have a city that has been pretty much wiped off the face of the map. I am over 500 miles away from NOLA, but even here in Nashville we’re getting almost 10,000 displaced folks from that area over the next week. I can’t imagine what other cities which are closer like Jackson, Memphis and Little Rock are getting.

So, yes the media might be a little overly focused on NOLA and not whatever storm is ravaging some part of Asia this week. But is that any reason to say we turn a blind eye when people suffer elsewhere? Every time there is a disaster in the world, we Americans help in any way we can. But when we are dealing with our own disaster, the likes of which haven’t been seen here in decades, we are turning a blind a blind eye when something not even approaching the scale of what happened here happens elsewhere.