'Wash Post' Runs A Key Katrina Correction
In its Sunday edition, the Washington Post quoted a "senior Bush
official" who said that "as of Saturday [Louisiana Governor] Blanco
still had not declared a state of emergency." This, of course, was
meant to make the governor look foolish and spread the blame around
for the disastrous response to the disaster, though it was hard to
imagine on what grounds the newspaper would quote an unnamed source in
this case.
Several hours of blogosphere howling ensued. Later in the day, the
Post ran this correction, or rather, 180-degree turn:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054596
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06 Sep 2005 06:48:33 PM |
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wrote:
'Wash Post' Runs A Key Katrina Correction
In its Sunday edition, the Washington Post quoted a "senior Bush
official" who said that "as of Saturday [Louisiana Governor] Blanco
still had not declared a state of emergency." This, of course, was
meant to make the governor look foolish and spread the blame around
for the disastrous response to the disaster, though it was hard to
imagine on what grounds the newspaper would quote an unnamed source in
this case.
Several hours of blogosphere howling ensued. Later in the day, the
Post ran this correction, or rather, 180-degree turn:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054596
Yes, that correction was on the top of the story that contained the
misinformation when I read the story.
Governor Blanco declared a state of emergency on August 26, and
requested (via fax) a request for an expedited declaration of a major
disaster on August 28. She filed it under the provisions of Section 401
of the Stafford Law (when state resources are inadequate to handle the
disaster).
http://www.fema.gov/library/stafact.shtm#sec401
(And the copy of the request is @
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf )
Woods
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