[andyk]

Kelly McBride, who teaches ethics to journalists at the Poynter Institute, a journalism research and education center in St. Petersburg, Fla.

"You get so hung up as a reporter on what the big picture is that you use generalizations that become untrue," McBride said.

Of course, that big picture is making the Bush administration look bad.

[indiana_gop]

... police are re-examining the reports and finding that many of them have little or no basis in fact.

Are these the "real " police or the "on paper" police?

[Mo1]

What??!? ... they lied .. say it ain't so

/ sarcasm>

[Polybius]

The Associated Press is actually beginning to finally tell the truth about the Big Lie????

Once they begin to report about the failure to evacute New Orleans' poor and the hundreds of flooded parked buses we will then see:

[Accygirl]

Frankly what disgusts me the most about the whole situation is that they were actually hurting the people they were claiming to help. You know that some people thought twice about opening their homes to evacuees or even giving money because of the way that NO residents reacted after the storm.

[Americanexpat]

Nagin and the MSM did a lot to embarrass the country and the government overseas and here at home. A lot of us here at FR didn't believe it when the lying Mayor shot off his mouth about all the looting and his racist accusations against Bush. A lot of us kept our mouths shut and adopted a wait and see attitude and we were right to do so. The people of NO who were slandered by the MSM have been vindicated, but the mayor is still a lying SOB.

[ladyinred]

I agree with most of the posters here that the media and some state officials along with democrat leadership wanted this crap out there to somehow make the President seem at fault. I couldn't see the connection even if this stuff was true, but some want to.

[b4its2late]

Some reports? Sounds like most of them.

[lawdude]

"Kelly McBride, who teaches ethics to journalists at the Poynter Institute,"

That is like an Eskimo teaching Russian to a rattlesnake!

[Suzy Quzy]

I watched a report on SCarborough and a photo journalist and he had taken LOTS of pictures of dead bodies around the Dome and Center. I feel certain there were more than the 5-6 that they say.

[Xenalyte]

One of those victims _ found at the Superdome _ appears to have been killed elsewhere before being brought to the stadium, said Bob Johannessen, the agency spokesman.

I mean, really. If you're gonna go to all the trouble of poppin' a cap in someone, wouldn't you just leave him lie?

[CaptainKeyword]

everything out of new orleans was exaggerated, except perhaps the real story of the plight of its citizens. the media is the enemy.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Bill Waldron, a homicide detective from Florida in New Orleans for a murder trial, was stuck in the convention center until Sept. 1..."People were wanting just some type of authority to come in...]

Yes, "some authority" like the NOPD or other agencies within THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. Where were they? Certainly not under president Bush's command. Lousiana is clearly the most corrupt state of dependent wimps in the entire USA, bar none. It's raining -- "WHAAAAAAA", It's blowing -- "WHAAAAAAA", It's flooding -- "WHAAAAAAA". Give us $250B -- "WHAAAAAAA".

[richmwill]

Saddest thing is, too many freepers couldn't wait to believe the violence reports were all true.

[Rennes Templar]

"The incidents were highly exaggerated" _ the result of fear and hopelessness,..."

by the MSM that they might not be able to bash W enough with just the hurricane alone

[ntnychik]

Good to know about the exaggerations.
That said, I'm not surprised it would be very hard to file criminal charges with extensive evacuations, and police stations swamped. The police who didn't go AWOL weren't spending their time doing paperwork.

[silentknight]

So the bottom line is the following

Murders DID occur at these locations
Rapes DID occur at these locations
Assaults DID occur at these locations.

Hmmm

The numbers might have been exaggerated but the incidents did occur.

Funny how some people on here act like the article states nothing happened.

heh

[MCCRon58]

i think the problem is that too many of us (the american public) do not understand the 3 branches of american media.

I cal them 1-Facts, 2-Truth, and 3-Opinion

"Facts" are the "on the spot" media reporters.. Their job is supposed to be to report what they see, who says what, when they say it, etc. In other words the who, what, when,where and why. AND NOTHING ELSE! These are those we see on the scene, describing the wreck, speech, etc. telling the audience what they witnessed. (EX; your average local schlub reporter on the scene of the big fire, or mayors speech)

"Truth" is the "investigative" reporters. Their job is to question what the powers that be say, and do, and find out the truth behind the fascade erected by public figures. They are not supposed to report on the "day to day", "as it happens" news. Usually, if they do their job right, their stories are about things that have happened in the near to distant past.(EX Wood-stein)

"Opinion" are the commentators. Their job is to give the reporting of the truth perspective from the openly admitted viewpoints of the commentators. (EX:Rush, Hannity, Tony Snow, etc.)

The problem,as I see it, is that none of the cable news networks have realized that these jobs are independent, and when you try to combine more than one of them, you get the gross exaggeration, distortions, and outright falsehoods portrayed as fact, as occurred in the coverage of Katrina.