Tuesday, January 3, 2006
In New Orleans, worries about a lasting -- if false -- reputation
By Erin McClam
The Associated Press
Published: 12/21/05
Excerpt:
Journalists learned a hard lesson from Katrina: Ask hard
questions, even when the information is coming from high places. "When
it's the police chief telling you that there are rapes going on of
children, you don't tend to say 'How do you know that?'" said Scott Libin
of the Poynter Institute, a news media think tank. "We tended to assume
that these, after all, were credible sources. It wasn't just coming
from one place. ...
"I did see conscientious efforts by journalists to go back and
investigate and set the record straight. I saw them examining how it
had happened."
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