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Th Sept 22 -

KATRINA MEDIA COVERAGE -

"I think that the press can't handle more than three stories... Newscasts have changed to the degree that you don't have journalism like you used to have. What you have now is journalism as a soap opera. You have journalism that has theme music, you have journalism that has logos, you have journalism that has a certain kind of pattern that has to become a soap opera so we can become hooked on watching the soap opera instead of watching the news."

:: Blanquita Cullum ::
-- Kurtz: ReliableSources --

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Cable TV News is supposed to excel at extended news events. So, how'd it fare with Hurricane Katrina?

I thought the visual images were gripping, but the narrative left me less than enthusiastic.

From the beginning, I was uncomfortable with the way the coverage was being structured: white male talking heads speaking for "helpless" black folks. They seemed to be infantilizing the black residents.

America is not a nation of amnesiacs.

After decades of racial struggle,
this is what we end up with???

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