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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (14578)12/19/2005 3:24:54 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Major media backtrack on own Katrina coverage

Update by Pajamas Media Staff in Los Angeles
Sunday, December 18, 2005

In the traditional winter/spring crush by major newspapers to publish investigative stories that land them on finalist lists for hotly contested journalism awards, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times both put forth front-page stories this weekend that dramatically contradict much of their own coverage of the disaster.

The New York Times found that of 260 deaths it analyzed, "Of those who failed to heed evacuation orders, many were offered a ride or could have driven themselves out of danger," while the Los Angeles Times found that "the well-to-do died along with the poor." Despite media coverage that focused on poor blacks, of the 380 bodies formally identified in New Orleans thus far, the Los Angeles paper said, a disproportionate number were white -- as measured against the city's population.

Brothers Judd is one of the earliest blogs to pounce, asking why Bush hates white people.

Barcepundit doubts that European media will admit how wrong their own slant was.

Rumblings of media overreaction to "cultural myths" about race and Katrina had already surfaced in opinion pieces published in the Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere.

Norwegianity slams the media over the new data, but sees George W. Bush at fault for every death following the storm, and Weather or Not had already made the case that race played no role in the response of government.

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