actually, I've found Shep better on the Katrina coverage, he seems deadly serious compared to his usual glib self.
We cannot on the one hand object to the media NOT showing the clips of planes going into the WTC and people jumping from those building, which would emphasize WHY we are involved in Iraq and the WOT, generally .. and on the other hand object to showing an actual dead victim of the NO devastation.
The media has gone out of its way not to show all the bodies floating in the canals and river. I don't WANT to see it, but it would certainly bring the reality home in a whole other way.
Yes, this event has made the young man grow in a very meaningful way. He is a different and better guy now, imo.