Summary
Schanberg shares why the nation's media biggies had ignored the year-in-year-out reporting by the New Orleans Times-Picayune's warning of a hurricane tragedy. Some of the smugness has been penetrated by the arrival of the Internet and its infinite space for everyone with a computer to critique everything around them, including the press. Yet the caste system still exists and will continue to ignore important others as long as the insecure human species determinedly insists on pecking orders.
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The Caste System
The Katrina disaster has peeled back the veil from many of America's shames and weaknesses. One of them Is the press's caste system. * Last week's Press Clips touched on this briefly, pointing out that the nation's media biggies, acting in character, had pretty much Ignored the year-in-year-out reporting by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which kept warning that a hurricane trag...
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