A great American city is currently buried under a sea of water, but you may not know much about it given all the attention media have given to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the failed car bomb attempt in New York's Times Square.One reason the national media have mostly ignored the flooding may be:
This is true - even though, as the opening of the video below shows, this is the greatest disaster to befall Tennessee since the Civil War. (In 1860 Williamson County, directly south of Nashville, where my family and I lived from 1995-2007, had the highest economic output of any county in the state. The "Late Unpleasantness" so devastated the county that its output did not return in dollar figure - not constant dollar, just plain dollar - to that of 1860 until 1980.)
Update: This video made Drudge this morning.
Update: Michael Silence hosts an online poll on whether you think the flooding was "underplayed by the national media."
Update: Newsweek's blog, The Gaggle, says that the national media certainly did drop the ball.
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