L.A. Times Media Critic Wades Into New Orleans Quagmire

On the heels of this week’s announcement that James Rainey has won the 2010 Bart Richards Award from Pennsylvania State University for a series about the diminishing quality of local TV news, the L.A. Times columnist today details a Bayou bombshell.

For five years, former New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer Alex Brandon kept quiet about some events he witnessed a week after Hurricane Katrina. But during court testimony last fall, he finally came clean about what he saw outside Harrah’s casino downtown, where African American resident Henry Glover and several others were shot at by police for alleged looting.

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