Disaster Coverage Still Influenced By Katrina

Hollywood Reporter:

Two years after Hurricane Katrina forever changed the Gulf Coast, its echoes still reverberate throughout TV journalism.

When Hurricane Dean formed earlier this month as the first major hurricane in the Atlantic basin since the 2005 season ended, the networks leapt into action using plans that have been honed and honed again since Katrina made landfall Aug. 29, 2005, leaving nearly 2,000 people dead and 1 million or more displaced.

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Comments

[LeftLeaner]

12:37 PM on 08/29/2007

"If we bear guilt for not doing enough in the run-up to the war, I would argue that Katrina was the journalistic counterweight," he said. "We have done our jobs, and whether or not people like to see it, we have done our level best in trying to hold public officials accountable."

OH REALLY, BRIAN.

You give yourself a pass, because of your reporting of Katrina, when you say the media is "hold[ing] public officials accoutable". Really, you must be talking in the past tense. As it is business (or lack thereof) as usual.
Just look around, apparantly, they are not acting very accountable by the sorely lacking results.

Keep justifying your job and dogged journalism LMAO.

[LeftLeaner]

12:30 PM on 08/29/2007

Bush is down for his yearly photo-op.

Last year he chose as his backdrop, a row of houses being built by Habitat for Humanity.

This was clearly meant to mislead the public, and lead them to believe it was a location being restored by the govenment.

What a slime ball.

Well, Mr. President, are you proud of all the accomplishments you have achieved with New Orleans these last two years?

A disgrace, just like everything else with this administration.

[dotmafia]

10:40 AM on 08/29/2007

In the last seven years, TV journalists and the MSM have failed the American people.
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