The U.S. media/entertainment complex is marking the fourth anniversary of pretending that New Orleans and the surrounding area are being rebuilt in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Like every anniversary starting with the first in 2006, the media/entertainment complex plans heartwarming stories of grit and determination in the face of governmental and public indifference. The stories will feature the very few people, often white, lucky enough to have rebuilt their homes.
What won't be reported will be the media's complete fabrication of African-American violence during the days after the storm and the media's complicity in covering up the very real racial killings conducted by white vigilantes and white police in the days after the storm.
Mainstream journalists from print, television and the internet also plan to interview people whose homes and neighborhoods still lay in ruins because the government can't spare the trillions of dollars it spends bombing remote middle eastern villages to rubble.
Predominately poor and black, these interviewees' names will be entered into a media database to ensure both that they weren't interviewed on previous anniversaries for stories about how they are still waiting for funds to rebuild and that they won't be interviewed on subsequent anniversaries for stories on how they are still waiting for funds to rebuild.
Anchorpersons will then solemnly intone about "much progress being made but much still needing to be done" in the devastated area before abruptly brightening up and saying, "Now here's a charming story about a squirrel that has become a Youtube sensation!"
