I was on a break from blogging when Hurricane Katrina hit and New Orleans went down, but people kept sending me stuff. The article most often sent to me was a commentary by Matt Wells of the BBC, "Has Katrina saved US media?" Possibly it has, he said: "Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina."
The "timid and self-censoring journalistic culture" in the U.S. is normally "no match for the masterfully...
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