Hugh Hewitt Sticks ItTerrific
column in the Weekly Standard about the media's Katrina coverage. He correctly nails Brian Thevenot of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for reporting the worst stories as I covered here
on September 6. Thevenot has since
co-written an article noting the erroneous coverage without acknowledging that he himself wrote one of the most inflammatory pieces, one that convinced me that the stories must be true if one of New Orleans's own reporters was saying it. I criticized (on the basis of Thevenot's earlier article)
Matt Welch for being overly quick to say that the horror stories were untrue; in retrospect, of course Welch deserves kudos.
Along the same lines is
Jeff Goldstein's post today.
Instead, I suspect the majority of people who believed the very worst stories did so because they believed that, as politicized and shaded as news stories sometimes are in terms of framing facts, they at least get the facts themselves largely correct.
(Italics in original)
