Facts aren't news

So now there has actually been time to discover what happened in the aftermath of Katrina and it turns out to have been mostly nonsense. A scandal-hungry press being fed gobbets of scandal they were all too willing got believe as anecdotal evidence for a larger trend produced accounts of events in the Superdome and on the streets of the forsaken city that simply did not happen. But where are the apologies? Where are the journalists being held to account as politicians would be for such a failure. Of course, there lies the problem: who will interview the interviewers. Meanwhile, proof, if it were needed, that 24-hour news has nothing to do with the truth, which requires time to ascertain.