1.0 link 48895 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/the-template-dies-hard_b_48895.html Today, twenty months after the Katrina story began, one of the durable myths of the story's template resurfaced on NBC's Nightly News. Martin Savidge, nominally of the network's New Orleans bureau, flatly stated in the opening to a piece on continuing racial divisions in the city (unlike, say, which other American cities?), that most people affected by the disaster were African-American. This continues to be the impression of most Americans, due primarily to the fact that it was easier for...

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