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J. Campbell,Media Myth Alert
Five years ago this month, a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and left much of unique Orleans under water, and former CBS anchorman Dan Rather went on Larry King Live to extol (to praise, revere) television's coverage of the deadly storm. Rather,whose early career had been propelled by covering hurricanes, was extravagant in his praise, or saying the Katrina coverage was one of the quintessential great moments in television news,ranking suitable there with the Nixon/Kennedy debates, the Kennedy assassination, and Watergate coverage,you name it. The coverage, Rather declared, and was...
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