Today, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper interviewed Harry Shearer, director of The Big Uneasy, a documentary about why New Orleans flooded and why it could happen again.

Levees.org thanks the New Orleans Ladder for hipping us to this interview.

The movie presents expert findings on the Army Corps of Engineers’ role in the catastrophic breaching of the levee system that flooded 80% of New Orleans and 100% of nearby St. Bernard Parish.

Tapper observed that The Big Uneasy was not getting a lot of national news attention at and after the Fifth Anniversary of Katrina and asked Mr. Shearer about it. Here is an excerpt.

TAPPER: Why do you think the national media in some cases has been reluctant in some cases to talk about this (the documentary)?

SHEARER: Well, Jake, I’ll throw it back to you. You work at ABC News, why couldn’t Good Morning America and World News Tonight take a pass at this? I can’t fathom it! You know,… to me, Katrina, the flooding of New Orleans, was the biggest domestic news story of the first decade of this century. 9/11 was an international story, because it had an international component. You would think that this (the 5th anniversary) would be a good time to revisit the story and learn what really happened. Nothing on CBS, nothing on ABC, nothing on NBC. NPR walked away from this story. I tried to buy underwriting announcements on NPR, and NPR legal would not approve about why New Orleans flooded. They thought that somehow violated FCC regulations.

You can see the entire interview here: