The Day After: Take 6
Michael Learmonth in Variety (sub req.)
What began as a story of 140-mph winds and “flagpole-flying” correspondents turned slowly into one of flooding, looting and death.
Reporters traded hurricane rain gear for hip waders Tuesday as levees broke around New Orleans, bringing misery to the city and the realization that the worst was yet to come.
NBC’s Brian Williams, who weathered the storm in the Louisiana Superdome, watched the story shift as he made his way into the French Quarter Tuesday morning to tape a standup for “Today.”
He was about to report that the city had been spared the worst as the eye of the storm skirted 60 miles to the east. Then two levees broke and the water began to rise.
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“I used iodine tablets in Iraq, but I never thought I would have to use them in New Orleans,” said Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan, who was loading up a rented Ford Excursion to make the run from Gulfport, Miss., to the Big Easy.
Next to Harrigan’s SUV, a shipping container sat on top of what was left of a house. Elsewhere in Gulfport, people poured water on a marooned sea lion that had floated out of a local tourist attraction.
“It’s like a box that got shaken up; nothing is where it’s supposed to be,” Harrigan said.
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ABC and Fox purchased video from a private pilot flying over Biloxi, but news helicopters have been prohibited from flying over New Orleans, making aerial shots scarce.
What really does make sense to me was all the people giving Fox News a huge pat on the back for not hyping it up and for Smith saying New Orleans was spared. This obviously turned out not to be true, the city is destroyed, thousands of people are dead. CNN was right for not reporting things as wonderful and dandy. Fox News made a fool of themselves.
Comment by Anonymous — August 31, 2005 @ 3:00 pm
Fox has reported this story very well from the beginning and they continue to do so. They haven’t had reporters crying on the air and they haven’t turned themselves into the Red Cross — it works for me.
Comment by HurricaneWatcher — August 31, 2005 @ 7:36 pm
Has Poster #1 been asleep for three days, and not seen Shepard Smith’s reports? There were none better. But this isn’t a contest. This is an accounting of the most horrific event in our history.
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