Hanson & Katrina
Victor Davis Hanson has what may be the final word on media coverage of Katrina,

For all the media's efforts to turn the natural disaster of New Orleans
into a racist nightmare, a death knell for one or the other political parties or
an indictment of American culture at large, it was none of that at all. What we
did endure instead were slick but poorly educated journalists, worried not about
truth but about pre-empting their rivals with an ever-more-hysterical story, all
in a fuzzy context of political correctness about race, the environment and the
war.

Let ghoulish CNN file suit against the government to film all the
bloated corpses it can find. Let a pontificating PBS "News-Hour" conduct more
televised roundtables with grim-faced elites searching out purported national
racism. But few any longer trust a frenzied media whose reporters and
commentators continually prove as incompetent as they are disingenuous.
Was it too much to ask reporters to look to history to judge this recovery against
other past disasters here and abroad? Could they have strived for accuracy
instead of ratings — and at least made sure that the images from their cameras
did not refute their own predetermined scripts?

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- posted by Base10 @ 10:44 AM