Katrina Coverage

Analyzing the news reports and politics of the New Orleans hurricane.

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Der Spiegel offers jazz, racism

October 17th, 2005
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That German rag offers Life After Katrina: America's New Jazz Museum! (No Poor Black People Allowed)
It contains this:
New Orleans trumpeter Irvin Mayfield… is incensed too at mainstream coverage of the storm's aftermath. "Looters? Anyone who grew up in New Orleans like I did knows that drugs run rampant here. How are you going to relocate […]

German left tells us what it really thinks

September 9th, 2005
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From Sep. 2's Tageszeitung comes "The True Catastrophe" by Philipp Mausshardt. It ends with this:
"Yet joy and sympathy beat simultaneously in my chest. I am, for example, joyful at the moment that the latest hurricane catastrophe hasn't again hit some poor land, but instead the richest country in the world.
Yes, I even see in that […]

German TV on Bush's Sep. 2 "photo op"

September 6th, 2005
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On Sep. 2 president Bush visited New Orleans, and two German TV stations are apparently claiming that his visit was a staged photo op: bulldozers and the like were brought in just for his visit, bodies were moved, etc. From this second-hand report:
ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their […]