Brian Williams‘ blog continues to be a must-read. He follows up on this morning’s Howard Kurtz story:
“It’s unfortunate, in a way, that at least in the blogosphere this has morphed into a story about guns and censorship (a less-than-perfect description of what we encountered in downtown New Orleans). I think what happened here is quite simple: we beat the first-responders. That made us witnesses. That made us the sole source of on-the-ground intelligence in a city with no power, rising water and no communications. The outrage grew when the disconnect became apparent between what was being said at briefings… and the live pictures of abject and systemic social collapse that filled the other half of the split screen.”
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