More on the Media Disaster

I mentioned yesterday about the Times-Picayune article that covers point by point all the over-exaggerations, rumors, and media hysteria that accompanied the coverage of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Well, today the Los Angeles Times has picked up on it, and makes its own criticism of how the media coverage magnified the chaotic distortions, eagerly spinning the nation and the world out of control through its rumor mill.

[Update] Hugh Hewitt finds vindication over the slow-plodding journalism of the MSM. And get a load of this from Radioblogger

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[Update II] The New York Times finally plods along, reporting on yesterday's news.