Base10 wonders whether the relentless finger pointing about federal relief efforts by the media will have a backlash. Base10 noticed that the ever vacuous Katie Couric was practically feeding anti-Bush lines to anyone she could interview. Thing as outlandish as, "Do you blame the President for your current situation?" Now that's journalism.

On the bright side, seeing Couric walking around in waders in the filthy and sickening floodwaters in NO was almost worth the aggravation of listening to her. Mrs. Base10 pointed out that sending her on assignment to NO may indicate she is no longer the daytime diva at NBC. We can only hope.

Anyway, as liberal media aided by Democratic Party functionaries has relentlessly stated, Bush is to blame. Pick you reason. It's either global warming, mismanaged FEMA, racial bigotry, or any one of a number of other reasons. However, if poll results show that the American doesn't assess blame like this in the face of a national tragedy, wouldn't that be an indication that the media has lost credibility?

You decide. When asked who was most to blame for failures in the relief efforts, a Gallup poll showed that 38% of Americans don't think anyone was to blame and 25% think the state and local governments bear the most blame. Only 18% thought the federal government was responsible and 13% held George Bush responsible (obviously all members of moveon.org). Not exactly the numbers I would expect if the American public viewed big media as a fair and neutral presenter of the news. Big media has been facing a credibility gap since Ra^thergate. Katrina is just making it worse.

Link.

Via RCP.

- posted by Base10 @ 11:00 AM