The BBC is the first I've seen to call it "Katrinagate." In a scathing commentary on the state of U.S. media, the BBC commented on its radio and TV programs:
"Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina."
"The most spectacular example came last Friday night on Fox News, the cable network that has become the darling of the Republican heartland.
This highly successful Murdoch-owned station sets itself up in opposition to the "mainstream liberal media elite".
But with the sick and the dying forced to sit in their own excrement behind him in New Orleans, its early-evening anchor Shepard Smith declared civil war against the studio-driven notion that the biggest problem was still stopping the looters.
On other networks like NBC, CNN and ABC it was the authority figures, who are so used to an easy ride at press conferences, that felt the full force of reporters finally determined to ditch the deference."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214516.stm
"Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina."
"The most spectacular example came last Friday night on Fox News, the cable network that has become the darling of the Republican heartland.
This highly successful Murdoch-owned station sets itself up in opposition to the "mainstream liberal media elite".
But with the sick and the dying forced to sit in their own excrement behind him in New Orleans, its early-evening anchor Shepard Smith declared civil war against the studio-driven notion that the biggest problem was still stopping the looters.
On other networks like NBC, CNN and ABC it was the authority figures, who are so used to an easy ride at press conferences, that felt the full force of reporters finally determined to ditch the deference."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214516.stm