A lot of wild rumors have been reported from the Gulf Coast - and on further scrutiny, some of them have been debunked.
There was a great contrast between N.O. and Mississippi. They showed a guy from MS. talking about what they were doing. They got looters under control it seems, and they said they got a lot of calls but mostly they were false alarms. He sounded in charge, in command, and like they knew what was happening and could send help wherever it was needed.
Meanwhile in N.O., Fox has two correspondents who look like they need a break, surrounded by what they say is horrific disaster. And I'm sure it is, but the people they interview look OK, they certainly don't look like they haven't had water for 3 days. The baby cried when Geraldo took him, and fussed quite a bit.
But the big thing is that nobody had any idea what was going on, nobody seemed to know where to send people.
The difference is that in MS. they apparently had State resources set up to handle disaster, while in N.O. they seem to have spent all their money on parties.