Media Coverage of Katrina Aftermath Faces New Scrutiny (video)

September 29, 2005: The media's coverage of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath has been criticized as some news reports of rapes and murders in parts of New Orleans appear to be unfounded. In the days that followed the devastating landfall of Hurricane Katrina, the nation's media descended on the flooded and chaotic scene along the Gulf Coast, reporting on suspected anarchy and rapes at the New Orleans convention center and Superdome and taking a hostile skepticism into interviews with government officials. Michael Brown, the former FEMA director who resigned amid a torrent of criticism after Katrina, accused the press of "hysterical" and "often inaccurate" coverage. Jeffrey Brown looks at the media and the job it did in covering the unfolding scenes in the hurricane zone.

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"Media Coverage of Katrina Aftermath Faces New Scrutiny (video)." Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, Object #457 (December 27 2005, 1:44 pm)<http://www.hurricanearchive.org/object/457>