Coverage of Rosa Parks' funeral, second-day reaction to the Alito nomination--what else will drown out the story of the Senate Homeland Security Committe hearing today?
CNN's honcho du jour noted that Anderson Cooper has started to turn up as a character satirized on Saturday Night Live.
When all else is stripped away, the capital-unintensive arts endure, as does the place’s irreducible eccentricity.
I'm already supporting the local economy--I bought some bananas at Matassa's grocery store, and a double espresso at my neighborhood cafe, where, appr...
Across the Industrial Canal, New Orleans looks like what you’ve seen on TV, only like an Imax version of it -- there is so much more devastation, stretching out for so many miles in every direction, than even a widescreen television can encompass.
I almost forgot about Monday's most dramatic moment: the climax of the two-week-long-plus epic called Replacing the Refrigerator. This is what all New...
Driving out to Metairie to stock the fridge, I finally got a glimpse of Trash Mountain. By my observation, it’s at least two stories tall.
Two rather more general observations on Day 3 of my visit: the city is experiencing record high temperatures, without the hammering humidity of mid-su...
One thing this trip shares with every other journey I’ve ever made to New Orleans: I have the feeling I’m leaving too soon...
I've spent the greater part of this week taking you along on my first visit back to my adopted hometown since Katrina, telling you what I saw and hear...
Re: WWOZ, the non-commercial radio station that dedicates itself to the preservation of the city's musical heritage: I wrote that it was still playing...
In an ideal universe this would be a big enough story but, like white phosphorus itself, the news media aren't being used so much for illumination these days.
I'm heartened by the quality of most of the comments responding to the original post by this name, but, more than ever, I wonder where the MSM is on t...
You can't be sure exactly when the alarm rings that signals end-of-toleration for the adventure, but we've clearly passed that point, and now all that's left is to manage the pullout as deftly as possible.
I decided to attend ABC's sendoff for Ted Koppel last night , if only to see whether Chicken Little's grosses made Disney cough up decent food for the occasion.
Wednesday night on CNN's Anderson Cooper Show (it is a show, now, isn't it?) and Thursday morning on MSNBC, I caught stories recapping the WP-in-Fallu...
In Sunday's "60 Minutes", a scientist will advise against rebuilding New Orleans. Would they have run a piece about rebuilding New York two months after 9/11?
Woodward did talk to a major publication about his doings in the runup to this week's revelation -- it just wasn't the Washington Post.
The Times-Picayune reports that Gov. Blanco's office has asked CBS to withhold a "60 Minutes" report that paints a gloomy picture of New Orleans' future.
Caught up with the "60 Minutes" piece on cbsnews.com. No other authority than professor Tim Kusky. Dire conclusions unrebutted. And, in a companion...
While Matt Drudge continues to hyperventilate about the X super'd on Cheney's face on CNN (for one-fifteenth of a second!), TV Newser offers an actual technical explanation for what happened.
Sure it's the day before Thanksgiving, but it's a little hard to forgive CNN for totally ignoring one of the day's major stories.
The New York Times has been caught at what appears to be another, rather gaping, violation of its ethics policies.
TheTimes Picayune uncovers in Friday's edition that pre-Katrina, scheduled inspections of the levee system were "cursory affairs."
Larry grills famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward (click here for audio). With Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, and Newt Gingrich.
