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What The Media Tell
Americans About Free Enterprise
Kudos
In late August, as
Hurricane Bonnie devasted much of the Carolina coast, CBS News
visited Topsail Island, which was hit by two hurricanes two years
ago. But instead of a typical network sob story, CBS questioned
whether residents were taking unfair advantage of taxpayers through
the National Flood Insurance program.
Reporter Jeffrey Kofman, on
the August 25 CBS Evening News, ran a soundbite from a local
realtor who said that a hurricane was "not necessarily a bad thing"
because "everything gets a facelift." Kofman then interviewed a
geologist, who claimed that subsidizing development on such
hazardous property "is sort of ludicrous." It’s the American way to
help neighbors in trouble, Kofman said, "but what about people who
knowingly live in high-risk areas? Should the federal government
bail them out, again and again?" Then, on the next day’s This
Morning, host Mark McEwen asked a federal official: "When do you
say enough is enough, if you want to build here, you have to rebuild
the damage that hurricane brings with it, taxpayers aren’t going to
do it anymore?"
— Rich
Noyes
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