Critiquing the Press on Katrina

USA Today has a good article today on the pervasiveness of incorrect reporting about Hurricane Katrina: “Katrina spawned plague of misinformation.” The reporter, Mark Memmott, interviewed me for the story and included a quote criticizing the media’s frequent repetition of Mayor Nagin’s claim that 10,000 people had died in New Orleans.

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