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Katrina
August 20, 2006: Spike Lee opens the floodgates
April 5, 2006: Katrina, Vic Mackey win Peabodys
March 3, 2006: How now
February 28, 2006: Where's Goodman?
February 5, 2006: TV editorials return to Nola
November 17, 2005: Wheel of misfortune
October 25, 2005: Their amazing race
September 28, 2005: Hating Geraldo means never having to say you're sorry
September 7, 2005: KC reporter becomes lifeline to New Orleans
September 7, 2005: Interrupting the president's vacation was an avoidable tragedy.
September 6, 2005: Media eyewitness: "I wasn't prepared...."
September 6, 2005: 6 feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
September 5, 2005: "Fox's finest hour"
September 2, 2005: How to trivialize a disaster
September 2, 2005: Not-so-quiet desperation
September 2, 2005: This week, we are all haunted by waters
September 1, 2005: TV Barn radio alert
September 1, 2005: Where is the coverage?
August 31, 2005: They're trying to wash us away
August 20, 2006: Spike Lee opens the floodgates
In his documentary “When the Levees Broke,” filmmaker Spike Lee tells the story of New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina in such detail and with such conviction that it is as if he is daring the viewer not to...
April 5, 2006: Katrina, Vic Mackey win Peabodys
WWL-TV may have lost a transmitter but it gained a worldwide audience, when its coverage of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath was streamed to the whole world. Today WWL was one of four broadcasters honored with Peabody Awards. Among the many other...
March 3, 2006: How now
Mr. FEMA, meet Mr. Maher.
February 28, 2006: Where's Goodman?
Listen to Andrea Hsu's report on NPR and the "secret identity" of the king of this year's Mardi Gras will be pretty obvious: Link: Morning Edition
February 5, 2006: TV editorials return to Nola
If anything positive has come from the broadcasting washout that followed Hurricane Katrina, it is this: Not one but two TV stations in New Orleans have resumed the long-moribund practice of delivering on-air editorials. And this time, they have bite....
November 17, 2005: Wheel of misfortune
Anyone else kinda creeped out by the decision of "Wheel of Fortune" to air the episodes taped in late August in New Orleans -- at the future Ernest Morial Convention Center and Cesspool of Death -- with only minor modifications?...
October 25, 2005: Their amazing race
You are eliminated from "The Amazing Race," because you got lost in New Orleans, the city where you happen to live. How humiliating! Could things possibly get worse than that? Well, yes, as the Schroeder family discovered a few weeks...
September 28, 2005: Hating Geraldo means never having to say you're sorry
Link: Chicago Tribune | Times' `grudging' budge on nudge riles Rivera. Nice column by Phil Rosenthal on how the New York Times bungled what would have been, at any other newspaper, a quick and painless mop-up operation after its chief...
September 7, 2005: KC reporter becomes lifeline to New Orleans
Link: Kansas City Star | Barnhart | KC reporter becomes lifeline to New Orleans. That's the story based on the interview with Dan Verbeck. As always, your miami.com or ohio.com or mercurynews.com or other RealCities account is honored at kansascity.com....
September 7, 2005: Interrupting the president's vacation was an avoidable tragedy.
As you may know, I get all of my news from "The Daily Show." And although I'd heard warnings that the tone of national media coverage of the Katrina disaster was shifting -- me, I mostly monitor New Orleans media,...
September 6, 2005: Media eyewitness: "I wasn't prepared...."
I've just interviewed Dan Verbeck, a veteran radio reporter for Kansas City's KMBZ-AM. The owner of KMBZ, Entercom, was looking for volunteers to go down and work the hurricane at sister station WWL-AM in New Orleans. Dan had gone down...
September 6, 2005: 6 feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
What better sign that Fox News Channel has arrived than the fact that Shepard Smith was the guest on "Late Show with David Letterman" last night? True, Shep is stepping into a vacuum -- CBS does not currently have a...
September 5, 2005: "Fox's finest hour"
Link: Paul Harris Online: Aaron Barnhart, TV Barn Radio. In today's TV Barn Radio segment of my KMOX show, Aaron Barnhart and I talked further about the TV coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with special kudos to Fox's...
September 2, 2005: How to trivialize a disaster
Scott Fybush, editor of the trade publication NorthEast Radio Watch, wrote me last night after seeing some of the stunning pictures being delivered from New Orleans by cameramen for NBC and ABC: The photojournalists on the scene are doing yeoman...
September 2, 2005: Not-so-quiet desperation
Ted Koppel did a fine job on "Nightline" last night grilling Mike Brown, the head of FEMA (which Soledad O'Brien then aped this morning on CNN). Brown apologized profusely for being distant, aloof, slow with help and out of touch,...
September 2, 2005: This week, we are all haunted by waters
I wasn't the only one pouring out my thoughts in helpless frustration at being unable to do much about the suffering I was seeing on TV on Thursday (see below, “Where is the outrage?”). I received this from my friend...
September 1, 2005: TV Barn radio alert
Paul Harris is going to have me on his show this afternoon to talk about the posting below. We're live at kmox.com at 4:15 p.m. CT. Update: It's now archived.
September 1, 2005: Where is the coverage?
Is it just me, or are the major broadcasters not paying nearly the mind to Katrina's aftermath as they would if, say, the hurricane had devastated New York City? Or Chicago? If not for President Bush deciding to hold another...
August 31, 2005: They're trying to wash us away
Surfing the critics: With New Orleans teetering on the verge of complete collapse, my friend and colleague, Dave Walker, TV critic at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, has evacuated with a half-million other locals. From near Baton Rouge, he's observing what...
