Has Katrina saved US Media - BBC

Here's the view from the other side of the pond:

As President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s.

Mr Bush's famed "folksy" style has failed to impress in this crisis
Then as now, good reporting lies at the heart of what is changing.

But unlike Watergate, "Katrinagate" was public service journalism ruthlessly exposing the truth on a live and continuous basis.

Instead of secretive "Deep Throat" meetings in car-parks, cameras captured the immediate reality of what was happening at the New Orleans Convention Center, making a mockery of the stalling and excuses being put forward by those in power.

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Full story here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4214516.stm

I just hope that the BBC was right.

MojoXN

It's starting to look that way, even the NYT is getting into the act.

Time for rats to abandon ship en mass.

American "free" press may be pressure from the international press.

Thank you for posting it.