Katrina Coverage

Fox has the Bush-friendly side of things.
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Dressed for the occasion in hard hat, work gloves and a large wraparound tool belt, the president joined other volunteers hammering nails into a sheet of plywood. The first lady, a cloth nail pouch around her waist, accompanied him. Bush spent most of his time chatting, signing autographs and […]

If the Los Angeles Times were based out of Mexico City, would the report "Immigrants Rush to New Orleans as Contractors Fight for Workers" be any different? Of course! It might be in Spanish. Other than that:
…Word has gotten out and each morning day laborers - who come from Central America and Mexico by way […]

Do you think there could be the slightest bit of bias in the AP report "Bush dines, stays in French Quarter"?
President Bush got a taste of some of New Orleans' finest Monday, dining in the French Quarter and staying at a luxury hotel to showcase progress in the hurricane-battered city even as much of it […]

"The Great New Orleans Media Cover-Up" starts with:
Were journalists lying in their reports during the post-Katrina savagery, or are they lying now, in denying it ever happened? Can you put toothpaste back in the tube?
Unfortunately, the rest of the post is badly-formatted, and I think there's a very long comment taking up half the page. […]

Carl Quintanilla offers this short article on New Orleans' working class not coming back:
Despite the mayor’s attempts to bring them home, New Orleans has become a closely-watched experiment in what happens when an entire income bracket disappears.
“If they can’t bring back these people, you’re going to see the city’s infrastructure fall apart,” says Dr. Robert […]

Speaking before a Senate panel, David Paulison, acting head of FEMA, says they're going to get new bids on $400 million worth of contracts:
"It sure looks, with hindsight, that FEMA would have been in a much better position if it had had a lot of contracts in place that had been bid that were standby […]

Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg Times offers "Media outlets exaggerated some of New Orleans' woes". In brief, the possibility of the media getting it wrong is OK, because the media can police itself:
…despite a slew of recent stories outlining the fact that the death rates, rapes and murders there have totalled far fewer than […]

This report from the AP's Lara Jakes Jordan (click her name for more on that AP reporter) has some news, but let's see if we can spot some opinion:
WASHINGTON - Former FEMA director Michael Brown was warned weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit that his agency’s backlogged computer systems could delay supplies and put personnel at […]

A DUmmie has an interesting compendium of news reports here. Where all those reports wrong? Or, are we being sold a line with the current spate of articles downplaying violence?
Those who want the truth are facing two powerful forces: "liberals" who want to downplay the fact that there was rampant violence because most of the […]

Here's an example. (Nofollow tag used because that site uses that tag on comments.)