<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Media restricted from covering Hurricane Ike’s devastation.</span></div><div><div><div><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/15/hurricane-ike-media/">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/15/hurricane-ike-media/</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><i>Yesterday [Sept 14] in a local report on KTRK-TV in Houston, TX, reporter Wayne Dolcefino revealed that media have been blocked from covering Hurricane Ike’s devastation.</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I guess it's on a need-to-know basis, like talking to survivors of <a href="http://citizenstruth.info/wordpress/2006/02/13/katrina-recap/">Katrina:</a><br><div><br></div><div><div><b>Katrina victims 'not allowed' to talk to media, reporter told</b></div><div><a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2924">http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2924</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><i>If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to be escorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview,” FEMA spokesperson Rachel Rodi is quoted in the article. “That’s just a policy.”</i></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>