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HURRICANE KATRINA and the myth of ?superlative reporting.? ?Five years on, it?s instructive to re?

By Glenn Reynolds

HURRICANE KATRINA and the myth of “superlative reporting.” “Five years on, it?s instructive to recall how extreme and over the top the reporting was from New Orleans in Katrina?s aftermath; it?s revealing to revisit what journalists said and wrote.”

What the press found superlative about its Katrina reporting was the realization — very comforting post-RatherGate — that if they all agreed on a storyline and pushed it, they could still move the polls despite the alternative media. That the reporting was crap didn’t matter at all.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).