A major national news organization finally recognized, at this late date, that it had not yet reported "the story" in all its triumphs and betrayals -- the resilience and self-reliance of the citizens of the battered but unbowed city.
The idea that the flooding chose favorites, on the basis of either race or class, is a persistent canard, and somebody in the "New Orleans bureau" should have had the time and opportunity to know better.
A friend in the city administration passed on to me the latest assemblage of empirical data about the state of post-flood New Orleans and environs. No...
What this sad spectacle teaches us, I think, is that the Democrats, in their pathetic excuse for strategizing, have replicated one of the basic flaws of the Bush regime.
That's President Bush, from today's news conference, answering a question on the whereabouts of Osama bin Ladin. He repeatedly defended the Iraq War ...
It would seem incumbent on political journalists to bend every effort to tell us what we need to know about the agendas and goals that lie beneath and behind the speeches and ads and polls.
One of the persistent myths of the post-Katrina story is the "the federal government sent all this money to New Orleans". Well, yes and, really no.
