A look at U.S. news coverage of the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The findings- almost nothing.
by FAIR
August 29 marked the fourth anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The devastation wrought by both the hurricane itself and the government's inept response prompted remarkably critical corporate media coverage that promised to fight for Katrina survivors and change the way we talk about poverty and race (FAIR Media Advisory, 9/9/05).
As NBC's Brian Williams told the St. Petersburg Times (3/1/06), "If this does not spark a national discussion on class, race, the environment, oil, Iraq, infrastructure and urban planning, I think we've failed." But four years later, corporate media outlets seem to have largely forgotten about Katrina and its survivors, let alone the conversations about race and poverty that were supposed to accompany it.
Erasing Katrina: Four Years on, Media Mostly Neglect an Ongoing Disaster | CommonDreams.org
Hey, Noble Mon, it is up to us to keep the lights on New Orleans. We were just discussing this over coffee down here. I'm right in it and the story seems to be growing cold all of a sudden, as if a switch has been turned.
ReplyDeleteCheck these articles out:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/28/773519/-New-Orleans-Pumps-Unsafe-.-.-.-on-Katrina-Anniversary
http://johnmcquaid.com/2009/08/16/the-katrina-flood-was-a-man-made-disaster-part-xxiii/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/28/shearer.new.orleans/index.html
And of course there is Levees.org
And silly old Editilla,
thanks youz for keeping da'Lights on Nola, http://noladder.blogspot.com/