A Year Of Katrina: Shep Was Confused; “There Were Untruths Being Told”

TV Guide’s Stephen Battaglio talks to FNC’s Shep Smith about the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. An excerpt:

TVGuide.com: You were pretty emotional about this story when you were down there covering it a year ago.

Smith: I felt extremely confused. It was the first time I had ever been in a situation where I’m on the ground and I’m hearing from people on every single level that things are getting better, and they weren’t. That was the frustration — there were untruths being told. I’m not saying people were lying; I think some of them may have been, and I know at the very minimum they were misinformed. Things were getting worse, not better. That was my frustration. To this day I get e-mails from people saying, “You lost it down there!” Well, I didn’t lose it. Those in control lost it. And you can only say it so many times — what you’re hearing is not true.