In a radio interview today, Harry Shearer admitted he was caught off guard by events during the making and the debut of his documentary, The Big Uneasy.

Although Harry expected the media to be “DNA-wired to pay attention to” the 5th Anniversary of Katrina, he said he was surprised at how the media “re-ran the same old stuff” about New Orleans being flooded by a natural disaster.

He also said he didn’t anticipate how much the media was “impervious to new information since it wasn’t uncovered by them.”

In response to news sources such as NPR which claimed they had always ‘been covering news stories about the New Orleans flooding’, Harry countered that by saying the news had ‘dribbled out’ and no news media had truly told the full story.

Regarding the making of The Big Uneasy, Harry remarked that he was “not ready for the litany of mistakes and wrongdoing” on the part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Harry also weighed on the NPR flap about its refused to allow Harry’s preferred text in an advertisement for the movie.

You can hear the whole interview by Isaiah Thompson of Philly Citypaper here:
http://stream.citypaper.net/music/pfs_harry_shearer.mp3