Post-Katrina Press: Same as it Ever Was

[SOURCE: AlterNet, AUTHOR: Eric Alterman]
[Commentary] For a brief moment in early September, it looked like the United States was about to have a long-overdue national conversation about race and poverty. But after many horror stories about post-Katrina conditions in New Orleans were found to be false, bloggers and talking heads jumped all over the press, bashing news organizations over the head with charges of anti-Bush bias for reporting rumors which made an already horrific situation look worse than it was. Now, if you get a story wrong, you ought to be called to account, but conservatives used the situation as an attempt to shift blame from the Bush administration’s egregious performance to a game of “blame the media” instead.
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