What with all the talk about more per capita deaths of whites than blacks, NBC seems to have struck back. On tonight's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams announced - somewhat triumphantly - that racism had been discovered in the housing situation for evacuees. I only caught the last part of the report, and it doesn't […]
NBC's Brian Williams conducted a long interview with president Bush, and the section about Katrina has Bush:
- repeating his blame-taking for the weak federal response ("to the extent that the federal government was ineffective, I'm responsible")
- given the opportunity to blame Blanco, Nagin, or others, he said "we're beyond that"
- he was watching the TV […]
Harry Shearer discusses a piece from Kerry Sanders that appeared on tonight's NBC Nightly News, claiming that he ignored the reports from NOLA and other sources blaming the Army Corps of Engineers for their bad floodwall design:
…Sanders' piece merely let a black man returning to his destroyed Ninth Ward home vent his blame on the […]
A team of notables has highly recommended that Time magazine select Hurricane Katrina as their 2005 Person of the Year. Those making this suggestion are:
NBC anchor Brian Williams…
CNN's Anderson Cooper…
Time reporter Matthew Cooper…
Democratic political consultant Donna Brazile…
conservative activist Grover Norquist…
WorldCom whistleblower Cynthia Cooper, named a Person of the Year by the magazine in 2002…
Yes, exactly: […]
On Saturday, Lisa Myers had a segment on NBC News discussing Kathleen Blanco's various mistakes. A transcript is here:
Myers: "Though experts had warned it would take 48 hours to evacuate New Orleans, Blanco did not order a mandatory evacuation that Saturday."
…Myers: "She and the mayor waited until Sunday [Aug. 28] , only 20 hours before […]
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 […]
