So the White House tunes into the network news to see what's going on in the world?"

Actually, looking back at their actions, it seems that they don't. If they had Bush would have cut two more days off his holiday and he would have waited a month or two to be photographed paling the wrong chord on a guitar.

The might even have told Mike Brown there were people in the convention center before he went on Nightline.

The thing is. TarHeel only told about 10% percent of the presses involvement in this story. He neglected to mention that it is shameful when Emergency Management people take two days to learn vital things about their tasks which have been reported by the press.

It is especially shameful that if Bush had taken the same approach he did for the pre-election Florida Hurricanes, he would have been much better informed and able to act.