Howie says, "Wowie!"
There certainly hasn’t been a lack of analysis (and analysis of the analysis soon to come, for sure) on the media’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Still, no verdict can be rendered final until the Godfather–the Post’s Howie Kurtz–has had his say. Fresh off a month’s vacation, he chimed in yesterday with an excellent and insightful Media Notes column.
Kurtz gives mostly high marks to the media for its coverage, beginning his column by noting “Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being”–a very un-Kurtzian opener indeed, perhaps because we’re more accustomed to reading Kurtz explain media’s apparent unraveling in recent years and months.
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