NY Times - Katrina Misses New Orleans

[Arnold]

Hasn't it been the NY Times that has been leading the charge that Bush was a day late and a dollar short when it came to Katrina and New Orleans? Well here was the headline from the day after the storm hit:

The New York Times

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Katrina Misses New Orleans,
Heavily Damages Mississippi

By Joseph B. Treaster and Kate Zernike

NEW ORLEANS

Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast with devastating force at daybreak Monday, sparing New Orleans the catastrophic hit that had been feared but inundating parts of the city and heaping damage on neighboring Mississippi where it tossed boats, ripped away scores of roof tops and left many of the major coastal roadways impassable.

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For more similar headlines: New Orleans Spared

[Minnesota]

Arnold,

Seems as if your linked source, Sweetness and Light, has been monkeying a bit with the facts.

Their presentation of the article
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The actual article
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Notice there is no mention of Katrina missing New Orleans.

And of course, although N.O. was hit, it was not with the expected category
4-5 winds, and the center of the storm did miss the city, so it was not as
catastrophic as had been feared.

[Arnold]

Your graphic is of the late edition - it was probably edited when they realized their mistake.

[Minnesota]

Go to your link and click on "From the paper of record." in the article [attachment]

[Arnold]

Go to your link and click on "From the paper of record." in the article [attachment]

What?

[BeHereNow]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4823849

NPR Story also says NO was "spared the worst". It must be a liberal conspiracy.

[Arnold]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4823849

NPR Story also says NO was "spared the worst". It must be a liberal conspiracy.

Uh, what was NPR accusing Bush of?

The point is that the liberal press in their sanctimony was pointing fingers even as they themselves got it wrong. Typical liberalism - they are what they accuse others of...

[Minnesota]

Arnold

If you go to the bottom of the article and look at the source you will see that Sweetness & Light reprinted the story from the MIT Tech college newspaper, not the NY times itself. Not improper, but considering they had the original source itself available (the NY Times), as we all do, that they elected to use a headline from a college newspaper is suspect. Sweetness & light even went to the trouble of inserting the NY Times logo into their reprint of the story, making it appear as if the piece was a copy-paste item. I'm not saying that the NY Times could not have changed the headline in later editions, but that there are other likely possibilities as well.

The point is that the liberal press in their sanctimony was pointing fingers even as they themselves got it wrong. Typical

MAYBE the NY Times got it wrong in earlier editions. As for the other newspapers; what I've seen is that at most they say in effect that N.O. was spared the worst. And it was. It could have been worse than feared. No sanctimony. No getting it wrong.

[Arnold]

Arnold

If you go to the bottom of the article and look at the source you will see that Sweetness & Light reprinted the story from the MIT Tech college newspaper, not the NY times itself. Not improper, but considering they had the original source itself available (the NY Times), as we all do, that they elected to use a headline from a college newspaper is suspect. Sweetness & light even went to the trouble of inserting the NY Times logo into their reprint of the story, making it appear as if the piece was a copy-paste item. I'm not saying that the NY Times could not have changed the headline in later editions, but that there are other likely possibilities as well.





MAYBE the NY Times got it wrong in earlier editions. As for the other newspapers; what I've seen is that at most they say in effect that N.O. was spared the worst. And it was. It could have been worse than feared. No sanctimony. No getting it wrong.

It says the article was distributed under "agreement" to them by the LA Times-Washington Post News Service. It seems highly unlikely they would jeopardize that service by monkeying around with the articles...

[Busheses]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4823849

NPR Story also says NO was "spared the worst". It must be a liberal conspiracy.

Not necesarily. NO was not as badly hit as they had anticipated by Katrina, however, when the levee broke, since they had not anticipaded the levee breaking, all heck broke loose.

[Blemonds]

Arnold,

Seems as if your linked source, Sweetness and Light, has been monkeying a bit with the facts.

I guess MIT monkeyed with the facts as well

[BeHereNow]

Uh, what was NPR accusing Bush of?

The point is that the liberal press in their sanctimony was pointing fingers even as they themselves got it wrong. Typical liberalism - they are what they accuse others of...

Oh, if that was your point, perhaps you should've mentioned it.

[Arnold]

Oh, if that was your point, perhaps you should've mentioned it.

Oops - I guess I could have been clearer...