Oh no....I was afraid of that. The media hardly mentioned anything about Mississippi or Alabama prior to Katrina. It all focused on New Orleans.
Actually, a high percentage of the MAJOR stars of the various networks were stationed in Mississippi, not New Orleans, for the landfall.
TWC had Cantore in Gulfport, for example.
While the landfall was occuring conditions were so bad in MS that those people had trouble reporting live; thus you had more reporting from New Orleans.