Via the LAT: Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy
The New Orleans Times-Picayune on Monday described inflated body counts, unverified “rapes,” and unconfirmed sniper attacks as among examples of “scores of myths about the dome and Convention Center treated as fact by evacuees, the media and even some of New Orleans’ top officials.”[…]
Follow-up reporting has discredited reports of a 7-year-old being raped and murdered at the Superdome, roving bands of armed gang members attacking the helpless, and dozens of bodies being shoved into a freezer at the Convention Center.
The whole thing is worth reading.
[…] and what is just hearsay based on the reporting of allegedly reputable news sources. h/t Poliblog
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“New Media” reports:
On the Levees of New Orleans
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