Katrina, Dead .... Wrong!

NBC News last night and the Los Angeles Times or the Times-Picayune yetsreday have done some extensive coverage of the false reports of murder and mayhem in New-Orleans in the wake of Katrina. From their reports, it looks like rumors supplanted accurate information and media magnified the problem. Rapes, violence and estimates of the dead were wrong.

Here's an interesting comment:

Times-Picayune Editor Jim Amoss cited telephone breakdowns as a primary cause of reporting errors, but said the fact that most evacuees were poor African Americans also played a part.
"If the dome and Convention Center had harbored large numbers of middle class white people," Amoss said, "it would not have been a fertile ground for this kind of rumor-mongering."