Interestingly, while the networks worked overtime to blame Bush for Katrina and to promote the "doesn't care about black people" meme, the blacks actually affected didn't buy it.
I recall network reporters interviewing New Orleans refugees in the Houston shelters trying to plant the story with their subjects. But the New Orleans blacks denied the claim outright. They knew full well who was to blame for their plight: Mayor Ray Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blank-o.
that was another one of those many times where the informed people like FReepers watched reality as it happened live, and then had our jaws drop when we saw the fantasy that the MSM created for the LIVs on the evening news.
I quit watching FOX because of Mascara Man and Whorealdos coverage of Katrina.