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• New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's radio interview
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• The Washington Post: Living Paycheck to Paycheck Made Leaving Impossible
  
  
• The Washington Post: Many Evacuated, but Thousands Still Waiting
  On shifting blame
  
  
• The Washington Post: Storm Exposed Disarray at the Top
  
  
• The New York Times Sept. 2 Front Page: From the Margins to the Center of the Tragedy
  
  
• The New York Times: They Saw It Coming
  
  
• The New York Times: David Brooks _The Bursting Point
  
  
• The New York Times: Paul Krugman _Killed By Contempt
  
  
• The Washington Times: Tony Blankly editorial
  A conservative columnist
  
  
• NPR spot about race and class in this disaster
  
  
• Other NPR spots
• Why wasn't New Orleans better prepared?
• NPR's ongoing Katrina coverage
• Reporters give voice to frustration
• New Orleans paper had warned of the worst
  
  
• BBC: Katrina response: Has enough been done?
  Worldwide audience response to the event and the coverage
  
  
• BBC: Viewpoint: Has Katrina Saved U.S. Media?
  
  
• BBC: In Depth on Hurrican Katrina
  
  
• Slate: Rebellion of Talking Heads
  On reporters getting sick of standard responses and getting angry on camera
  
  
• Slate: Lost in the Flood Race and Class
  
  
• Slate: The Thin Line Blew
  On the 'looting'
  
  
• Slate: What I Hate About Cable TV Journalism
  
  
• Scientific American: Drowning New Orleans
  A warning from October, 2001
  
  
• Negative responses to New Orleans in general
• From New York Times economics columnist Virginia Postrel: Their City was Gone ("I must admit that New Orleans has long been my least favorite American city..." why must that be admitted?)
• Another unflattering picture _Nicole Gelinas: Will New Orleans Recover?
• Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert: Should bulldoze New Orleans
  
  
• Times_Picayune: Washing Away
  The five_part series that ran in 2002 describing exactly what would happen should such a hurricane hit; this is important to keep in mind when hearing officials say they could not have imagined such a disaster
  
  
• Salon: Flushing Out the Ugly Truth
  
  
• Salon: Dreams Unrealized
  On how the hurricane reveals unfinished business from Civil Rights
  
  
• Salon: Katrina According to Fox
  
  
• Salon: The Culture War Over Katrina
  
  
• Salon: Katrina Jolts the Press
  
  
• Salon: A City in Ruins
  Geraldo Rivera saves an old woman worn out from the ordeal, walks her from the Fox News van to the heliport, and then makes her do it again so the shot looks good...
  
  
• War Room
  
  
• A video summary of the revolt of the journalists
  
  
• Biloxi Sun_Herald: South Mississippi Needs Help
  Air National Guard plays basketbal across street from refugees
  
  
• The American Prospect: Where Was George?
  
  
• The Nation: Denny Hastert's Dark Calculus
  
  
• The Nation: Living Like a Refugee
  
  
• The Nation: Indifference is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
  
  
• CNN: The Big Disconnect on New Orleans
  Talk about examples of irony...
  
  
• CNN: American Morning transcript _Rough interview with FEMA Director
  Look for highlighted section
  
  
• CNN: American Morning transcript _Rough interview with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
  Look for highlighted section
  
  
• L.A. Times: Sept. 2 Front Page On Line
  Look at other stories occuring alongside the hurricane story
  
  
• MSNBC: Joe Scarborough transcript
  Conservative pundit --look for highlighted section
  
  
• Videos
  • Fox News _Hannity & Colmes: The reporters step outside the standard conservative script
  • Meet the Press: Interview with Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard (this is gets quite intense)
  • Rapper Kayne West announcing on national television that George Bush doesn't care about black people
  • Daily Show: Inarguable Failure
    
    
• PBS News Hour Round Table Discussion
  With both sides of the political spectrum
  
  
• The Progressive: Katrina Compounded
  
  
• In These Times: Unnatural Disaster
  
  
• New Hampshire Union Leader editorial critical of the response
  This has been a staunchly conservative paper
  
  
• Associated Press: Bush Tours Katrina Damage Amid Criticism
  Contains more conservative criticism
  
  
• Daily Show: Inarguable Failure
  
  
• Wikipedia:
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • Political Effects of Hurricane Katrina
  • Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
  • Wikinews: New Orleans Disaster