Pictorial of the days before/during/after Katrina

mudflap · Post by **mudflap** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:40 am

Here is a series of 197 pictures that a guy who lives in Nola took. There's no hype, no whining about personal issues...just some incredible imagery with some very poignant commentary.

baldy · Post by **baldy** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:27 am

WOW.

i hadnt realised they had had that calm day in the middle before the water came. Even more cruel than i had imagined before.

dribbles · Post by **dribbles** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:20 am

utter trash that we see on TV. should give him $1m salary to do this stuff

Jittery Jim · Post by **Jittery Jim** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:37 am

Would have liked to have checked that out, but...

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Post by **bio** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:16 pm

My guess is that it was linked to by every forum and blog out there... bandwidth through the ceiling.... so they pulled it.

Post by **miftah** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:08 am

You know, I actually approved of what I saw of the television media.

I recognize that the reporting may not have looked right to the locals, but they themselves don't have the national perspective on the situation. The reporting on this has been, by and large, fair and as accurate as it could be, given the circumstances. Heavy handed? Salt to taste. The bottom line is there was a lot of general ignorance at the time on the part of even the officials in charge, and worse, seemingly a lot of deception. There are still direct conflicts as to who was responsible for what.

But in the wake of an unprecedented failure, the media stuck it to the people in charge and asked them the tough questions. They held their authority accountable. They got an inept (at best) or indifferent (at worst) man fired from his job, so that the needs of the people could be met.

As a journalist you're taught to always question authority. Its your job. Its why its called "the fourth estate." As someone who earned a degree in journalism, I will tell you that this is the first lesson they teach you about reporting, and it is the one that's been the least observed over the course of the last five years.

I'm not in love with the media industry these days, but I like to commend good work when I see it happen. Blog culture, for all of its pure-journalism hype, doesn't have the access to these people to properly hold them accountable.