“On television, the Hurricane Katrina Story has played out in several phases,” the Los Angeles Times’ Robert Lloyd writes in Monday editions. “It constituted a weeklong true-life miniseries that completely took over several channels — on CNN, Fox, CNBC and MSNBC, it was almost the only news there was — and made itself heavily felt elsewhere, dominating network news to the near-exclusion of the rest of the world.”
He continues: “From station to station and show to show, the disaster coverage was the usual mix of graphic overkill, unsubtle underscoring, insightful analysis, idiot punditry, brave reporting and complete insanity.”
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