What the press found superlative about its Katrina reporting was the realization — very comforting post-RatherGate — that if they all agreed on a storyline and pushed it, they could still move the polls despite the alternative media. That the reporting was crap didn’t matter at all.
It didn't take long after the event to figure out that the coverage was awful. I remember being astounded at how bad the press was in reacting to the storm. But that didn't stop the media from passing out medals all around to anyone remotely near a camera for the disaster.
There is more on the failure. How many foreigners still think that New Orleans was the scene of cannibalism, rape, and murder based on what our reporters told them?
Is it any wonder I have such contempt for the establishment media?
