‘Corporate Media Really Want to Be Able to Say the Story Is Over’
CounterSpin interviews with Rosa Brooks, Colette Pichon Battle, A.C. Thompson and Jordan Flaherty on Katrina’s 10 years of media neglect.
Katrina’s ‘Golden Opportunity’: 10 Years of Corporate Media Celebrating Disaster
Many pundits seem to feel New Orleans’ post-Katrina “miracle” was not just an incidental positive but was, all things considered, worth the 1,800 people killed and the 100,000 African-Americans permanently ejected from the city.
Katrina: 10 Years of Media Neglect
As we look to see how media will talk about ongoing effects of Katrina and the aftermath on the 10-year anniversary, a special episode of CounterSpin looks back on how media have covered–or not–the disaster over the past decade.
Some Other Tall Tales Brian Williams Should Apologize For
NBC’s Brian Williams has exaggerated more than just his experiences in Iraq. He misreported other aspects of the War in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, Ahmadinejad’s comments about nuclear power and other incidents.
Some Other Tall Tales Brian Williams Might Want to Apologize For
Now that he’s cleared up that he wasn’t actually shot down in Iraq by an RPG, there are some other tall tales that NBC’s Brian Williams might want to take back.
Doubling Down: Healthcare Site Isn’t Obama’s Katrina—It’s His Iraq War
No, the website problems with the Affordable Care Act aren’t like Hurricane Katrina. They’re more like the Iraq War.
Obama’s Deadly Website Compared to Katrina
To some people, a new law that is running into technical problems with a poorly designed website is not really the same as a massive disaster in one of America’s iconic cities that killed almost 2,000 people.
Brian Williams Rehashes Katrina Violence Myth
For the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, NBC anchor Brian Williams (Dateline NBC, 8/22/10) recalled the experience as his own boy’s adventure tale: You know, I’ve been around a lot of guns and a lot of dead bodies, and a lot of people shooting at people to make dead bodies. But you put them all […]
The Katrina Story You Don’t See So Much in Anniversary Coverage
In the coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s fifth anniversary, you’ll find several obligatory mentions in the corporate media of the still-decimated Lower Ninth Ward, but you’d be hard pressed to find anything as direct or damning as what you find in independent media coverage–for example, this piece on Women’s eNews (8/29/10) by Kimberly Seals Allers, who […]
Brian Williams Rehashes Katrina Violence Myth
Dateline NBC (8/22/10) did a special look back at Hurricane Katrina last weekend in anticipation of the disaster’s five-year anniversary. Watching the collage of 2005 footage and Brian Williams’ present-day commentary, I was struck by his characterization of the violence: You know, I’ve been around a lot of guns and a lot of dead bodies, […]
CNN: Secretary Duncan Right to Celebrate Katrina
At the end of January, Obama education secretary Arne Duncan told a cable news show (TV One‘s Washington Watch, 1/31/10), “I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.” In reporting on Duncan’s remarks, the January 30 Washington Post apparently couldn’t find anyone to challenge the notion […]
Jordan Flaherty on Katrina anniversary, Sarah Anderson on executive pay
Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Corporate media promised to pay more attention to poverty and race after the Gulf Coast’s Katrina disasters in 2005, and for a short time they did a little more reporting. But where was the followup on this year’s August anniversary, when papers like the Washington Post and L.A. Times, […]
Erasing Katrina
August 29 marked the fourth anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The devastation wrought by both the hurricane itself and the government’s inept response prompted remarkably critical corporate media coverage that promised to fight for Katrina survivors and change the way we talk about poverty and race (FAIR […]
Katrina Special: Colette Pichon Battle on Katrina three years later, Leigh Dingerson on New Orleans schools, Derrick Evans on the FEMA trailer tour
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin082908 Colette Pichon Battle and Leigh Dingerson and Derrick Evans @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin082908.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: All eyes have been focused on Denver and the Democratic National Convention. But while the political calendar suggests the story of the day is the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee, it’s hard to […]
Sue Sturgis on Katrina anniversary, Heather Boushey on welfare ‘reform’
It has been one year since Hurricane Katrina. . . What’s happened on the Gulf Coast since all the cameras and TV anchors cleared away? Also this week: Another media anniversary, ten years since the passage of the so-called welfare reform. Heather Boushey of the Center for Economic and Policy Research joins to discuss what’s missing from the media’s glowing assessment of this law’s success.
Katrina’s Vanishing Victims
An Extra! analysis of media coverage since Katrina—of the hurricane’s aftermath along the Gulf Coast and of poverty issues in general—found that with few exceptions, the media’s rediscovery of impoverished Americans lasted barely a month.
Amitabh Pal on India, Eric Deggans on Hurricane Katrina
This week on CounterSpin: India and nuclear double standards, with Amitabh Pal of the Progressive magazine. Also on the show: Why didn’t journalists follow through on conversations about institutional racism and class bias post-Katrina? We’ll hear from Eric Deggans, media critic at the St. Petersburg Times.
Jordan Flaherty on Katrina reconstruction, Eric Boehlert on the K Street Project
This week on CounterSpin: Continuing debate about Hurricane Katrina and how the government has responded to its aftermath. Also on the show: Discussion with Rolling Stone contributing editor Eric Boehlert on what he is calling a media “boycott” on coverage of the K Street Project.
Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
By September 1, residents of flood-ravaged New Orleans had been trapped for nearly 72 hours in a city with little shelter, food, drinkable water or dry clothing. As much as 80 percent of the city was under water as the Federal Emergency Management Agency seemed unable to respond to the situation. Police and first-responders abandoned […]
Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Katrina and racism, Ward Harkavy on the Bush Beat
This week on CounterSpin: Earl Ofari Hutchinson joins to discuss the racist tropes that dominated headlines post-Katrina. Also on the program: Ward Harkavy of the Village Voice on the Judith Miller saga and another story, involving Dick Cheney, that seems to be flying under the major media radar.
