Katrina: Afternoon Notes

> CNN preempted Your World Today for storm coverage. Let’s see how Wolf Blitzer handles it in The Situation Room later this afternoon…

> “You know what has been pretty interesting to watch this morning? CNBC,” an e-mailer says. “It has actually done a good job capturing the money angle.”

> “FNC got it right this time, they clearly learned from the spanking they took from CNN last time,” an e-mailer says…

> Fox News Radio began wall to wall coverage at 5am, and started to scale it back at noon. It offered the feeds “as a public service through XM and Sirius satellite radio,” Billboard says.

> “Has the era when every news story had a nickname passed? I certainly hope so!,” an e-mailer says. “Thankfully, the news outlets are using “Hurricane Katrina” on their broadcasts and not those insipid “Hurricane from Hell” type monikers. I fully expected to see “Killer Katrina,” “Gulf Monster” or some other tabloidesque attention getters, but was pleasantly surprised.” FNC is calling it a “Direct Hit” though…