Human After All?
The American press corps has covered countless heart-wrenching stories — of war, human tragedy, unspeakable poverty, and other accounts of misery — without, for the most part, injecting much emotion into their coverage. There are memorable exceptions, of course: Walter Cronkite shedding tears over the assassination of John F. Kennedy; reporters and commentators openly grieving in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But for the most part, reporters have remained calm, balanced and unemotional even in the face of the most unspeakable circumstances. They've hidden their outrage beneath a veneer of objectivity. They've seemed, to many observers at times, not quite human.
Katrina was different.
Katrina was different.
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