Aftermath: Some Of The Most Intense Nightly Newscast Ever

Quoting the Tyndall Report’s monitoring of evening news coverage: “Hurricane Katrina reminded us of the summer of 1992. It was a natural disaster like Hurricane Andrew (a 151 min week in August). It was a story of the collapse of civic order in an impoverished black inner city like the Los Angeles riots (a 157 min week in May). Katrina (263 min) combined both strands. In the last 17 years, only the week of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 (333 min) and four weeks during the first Gulf War received more intense coverage on the nightly newscasts.”