Denys,

Thanks for trying to bring a rational spin on all of the HYPE!!!!

Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> Surprisingly enough, the LA Times put out a decent article today.  Mind you
> I still consider it an opinion piece but it attempts to be "accurate."
> 
> It also has a reference to Poynter Institute, to which our fried Ron
> referred.
> 
> Denys
> 
> Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy
> Rumors supplanted accurate information and media magnified the problem.
> Rapes, violence and estimates of the dead were wrong.
> By Susannah Rosenblatt and James Rainey
> Times Staff Writers
> 
> September 27, 2005
> 
> BATON ROUGE, La. - Maj. Ed Bush recalled how he stood in the bed of a pickup
> truck in the days after Hurricane Katrina, struggling to help the crowd
> outside the Louisiana Superdome separate fact from fiction. Armed only with
>

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