What Good is a Drug Store with no Customers?

Despite all of the CIA leak coverage and Supreme Court Justice controversy New Orleans made the CNN headlines again today. Repair work of a Walgreen’s Drug Store in the Uptown District destroyed in the flood was the subject of the most recent news coverage. Last week the New Orleans coverage entailed little more than the re-opening of a famous coffee shop in the French Quarter. The fact that the media is limiting its coverage to efforts focused on the more prosperous areas of NO seems to indicate that the repairs necessary at the more poverty stricken residential areas are being ignored. With all of the short-term concerns mentioned in Prof. Jett’s 10/27 post regarding residential housing needs, the media seems to be more interested in the glamorous aspects of repair. Who is steering the eyes of the media and how can we influence them?