Brown and Blanco Grilled on Early Show

The Early Show on CBS treated FEMA Director Mike Brown and Governor Kathleen Blanco (D-LA) to tough questioning, although Brown was seared by co-host Hannah Storm while Harry Smith, reporting from New Orleans, only slightly singed the state's chief executive, and mostly on relief efforts underway now, not on what the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans could have done before the…
Ken Shepherd
 

ABC's Moran Hits Bush About “Resources” for Iraq Over Hurricane Vi

ABC's Terry Moran this afternoon put politics at the forefront in hurricane disaster coverage when, on a storm-ravaged Biloxi street, he confronted President Bush about how “one of the things you hear here is people saying 'there's a lot of resources being devoted to Iraq. Now this country needs them.' And they're frustrated about that. What do you say to the people who say there's too much…
Brent Baker
 

CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Katrina's Victims: "They Are So Black

Dave Pierre
 

Media Outlets are Playing the Race Card in the Wake of Hurricane Katri

Vinny Fiore
 

NYTimes Editorial Blames Post-Katrina Crisis on the Iraq War

Noel Sheppard
 

The Times' Flood Control Hypocrisy

Hurricane Katrina is a U.S. natural disaster unparalleled in modern times, leaving at least half of a major city underwater. In this national tragedy, the nation's paper of record rises to the occasion by declaring everything Bush's fault. But perhaps some blame could be more plausibly apportioned to the Times' own editorial page Yesterday's lead New York Times editorial, "Waiting for a Leader…
Clay Waters
 

What New Orleans Could Have Done Better

Lawrence Henry
 

Today Show's Tide Shifts: Relief Efforts Out, Blaming Federal Governme

Mark Finkelstein
 

NY Times Buries Expert: Level of Funding Not a 'Contributing Factor' t

John Armor
 

Deceptive Bush Blaming from the AP

Lyford Beverage
 

CBS Features Hurricane Victim Who Blasts Bush Over Weak Response Compa

In the middle of a Thursday CBS Evening News story on the destruction in Slidell, Louisiana, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, reporter Mark Strassmann showcased a distraught man “with a message for the President” who blasted Bush for how he responded in Iraq while not doing so for Louisiana. Anthony Nata charged: "You can go into Iraq and come in with big helicopters and set stuff up…
Brent Baker
 

CNN's Jack Cafferty Again Goes on Anti-Bush Tirade

Two days after CNN's Jack Cafferty demanded to know, as detailed in a Tuesday NewsBusters item, “Where's President Bush? Is he still on vacation?”and snidely suggested that “based on his approval rating in the latest polls, my guess is getting back to work might not be a terrible idea,” on Thursday's Situation Room Cafferty took off after Bush again. At about 3:30pm EDT during his “Cafferty File…
Brent Baker
 

CBS Price Patrol Pounces on Atlanta

Ken Shepherd
 

ABC's Cuomo Exploits Disaster to Push FDR-Like Government Growth

During ABC's Wednesday night prime time special, In the Path of Katrina, reporter Chris Cuomo exploited the tragedy to push for a permanent expansion of the federal government, just as occurred under FDR, "the last time the country responded with unprecedented sweeping changes to help the least fortunate. Today may demand an equal effort." Interviewing Randy Cohen, ethics columnist for the New…
Brent Baker