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Beeb tries for Brown, FEMA scoop and fails

October 12th, 2005
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The BBC will be showing a doc called "The Hurricane That Shook America", and they promote it in Fema 'knew of New Orleans danger'.
There appear to be two slightly newsworthy bits of info:
a key briefing officer within Fema sent a message directly to Mr Brown early on the day before Katrina hit, warning him […]

NPR on BBC, Southern Culture, and Deliverance

September 25th, 2005
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NPR's ombudsman discovers that the Beeb is even more biased than they are:
Specifically, the BBC appears to be focusing on the oddities of American culture and politics. There have been numerous interviews with spokespersons that seem to represent a view of America straight out of movies like Deliverance or In The Heat of the Night. […]