Media Still Wrong on Katrina

Only they refuse to let go. Too bad for the country. This is by Jonah Goldberg:

As I've written before, virtually all of the gripping stories from Katrina were untrue. All of those stories about, in Paula Zahn's words, "bands of rapists, going block to block"? Not true. The tales of snipers firing on medevac helicopters? Bogus. The yarns, peddled on "Oprah" by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the New Orleans police chief, that "little babies" were getting raped in the Superdome and that the bodies of the murdered were piling up? Completely false. The stories about poor blacks dying in comparatively huge numbers because American society "left them behind"? Nah-ah. While most outlets took Nagin's estimate of 10,000 dead at face value, Editor and Publisher - the watchdog of the media - ran the headline, "Mortuary Director Tells Local Paper 40,000 Could Be Lost in Hurricane."

It's all that "fake but accurate" news the Left adheres to nowadays.

Also, Lou Dolinar lists all of what went right during Katrina, especially by the US Coast Guard in Katrina: What the Media Missed.

And in case you missed the Popular Mechanics article from April on Katrina Myths, here it is.