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Bloomberg News using lazy inaccurate Katrina Shorthand to depict New Orleans flooding
The Bloomberg wire service, regarded as a premier site for news, ought to hold its writers to a high standard of accuracy and clarity. This applies as well when talking about what caused the damage to the city of New Orleans in 2005 because Bloomberg has so much influence over what the country understands about […]
New York Times issues correction to reporter’s description of New Orleans’ flooding
The New York Times has issued a correction to one of its reporters’ rendition of what happened in metro New Orleans on August 29, 2005. This is important because a prominent news source like the New York Times has much influence over what America understands about New Orleans. It seems that on August 13, reporter […]
Saying Katrina destroyed New Orleans is like saying traffic destroyed the Minneapolis bridge
For the third time this season, Becky Bohrer, reporter for the Associated Press has used lazy shorthand when describing the federal levee failures in metro New Orleans that devastated the region. Yesterday, Bohrer wrote that Southern University in New Orleans was “virtually wiped out by Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago.” To say Katrina wiped […]
