COMMENTS: King Canute
The grand futility of trying to hold back the tide makes for vivid visuals in a porkbarrel spending feature. Last May, Sharyl Attkisson showed us so-called beach renourishment along Cape May NJ for CBS' Follow the Money. Now Ron Mott is on the barrier islands of North Carolina for NBC's Fleecing of America. Mott patroled Kure Beach with Orrin Pilkey, a former Duke University professor: "This is a form of societal madness to build buildings right up next to an eroding shoreline."
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