Media Sources: The Causes Of Hurricane Katrina

News of the devastating hurricane Katrina and its economic, political, social, and humanitarian consequences dominated global headlines in an unprecedented manner when this natural catastrophe struck the region of New Orleans in mid August 2005 (Katrinacoverage.com). As a tradition, large-scale disasters like Katrina, inevitably, bring out a combination of the best and the worst news media instincts. As such, during the height of Hurricane Katrina’s rage, many journalists for once located their gag reflex and refused to swallow shallow and misleading excuses and explanations from public officials. Nevertheless, the media’s eagerness to report thinly substantiated rumors may have played a key role in

When one reads a book or article, conflict, setting, and point of view are critical to understand what they're reading. “I Survived, Hurricane Katrina, 2005”, by Lauren Tarshis is a fiction book based on the event of Hurricane Katrina. The novel is about a young boy who lost his family, and is trying to survive. The nonfiction resource “Hurricane Katrina Coverage for Central Alabama” by the National Weather Service is also about Hurricane Katrina but, the author took a different way of writing it. The website basically summarizes Hurricane Katrina and the damage effects of it. Hurricane Katrina was a serious event, and both of these resources helped inform everybody about it but, took very different approaches while doing it, both, the nonfiction

In the late summer of 2005, a terrible tragedy occurred that changed the lives of many in the south-east region of the United States. A Category 3, named storm, named Hurricane Katrina, hit the Gulf Coast on the 29th of August and led to the death of 1,836 and millions of dollars’ worth of damage (Waple 2005). The majority of the damage occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana. Waple writes in her article that winds “gusted over 100 mph in New Orleans, just west of the eye” (Waple 2005). Not only was the majority of the damage due to the direct catastrophes of the storm but also city’s levees could no longer hold thus breaking and releasing great masses of water. Approximately, 80% of the city was submerged at sea level. Despite the vast amount

Many stories are written in a positive or negative way to make a event seem in a negative or a positive way. Each news source has a way of tell how an event happened whether it is true or false information. Most of the time a news station hears about an event occurring and tries to be apart of it by telling the story but the source does not always have all the details so it is not credible. Usually by the day after the event occurs is when the media is a little more accurate with the details, but not one hundred percent yet. If one does not check different news sources for the same event to check the informations, the source can mislead the person and give false information. A news station like Fox News believes in personal responsibility and limited government, where ABC News believes in government actions for equal opportunity. With having different view neither source will be exactly the same because both have different ways of writ ring and

Media sources are categorized as liberal or conservative, both have some similarities, but are also quite different. CBS News is considered a liberal source and one of the breaking news story’s headline on their website is, ‘Tulsa cop charged in death of unarmed black man’ while CNN has this headline, ‘Officer Charged : Tulsa police officer faces manslaughter charge in shooting.’ (CNN) Although they both have the same headline they both have different articles geared towards different views. CNN gears toward the side of the victim’s family, such as inserting several quotes stating, “ This is a small victory” Crutcher’s twin sister Tiffany said, as well as, “The chain breaks here. We’re going to break the chains of police brutality,” she added, “We know the history.” (CNN) While, CBS rarely adds the viewpoint of the victim’s family, except for one that talks about Crutcher’s family relieved for the closing and that the family is “preparing for war.” (CBS) In this case these news sources use the objective of Bias by spin, because they spin towards one side or the other, and uses tone to persuade the reader to one side or the

All three sources took either a neutral, minor, or highly biased position where the CBS article, the “Our Families Are Under Attack, So We Rise Up” article, and the “No Release for State Dreamer” article. While it is the essential job for the media to stay neutral, these mass media outlets are the ones that harbor the responsibility for perpetuation of misinformation due to their chosen pieces of research and evidence that they decide to integrate into their articles for all of the media to

On the morning of August Twenty-ninth, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region. The storm brought the water to about twenty feet high, swallowing eighty percent of the New Orleans city immediately. The flood and torrential rainstorm wreaked havoc and forced millions of people evacuate from the city. According to the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, Katrina caused approximately one hundred and eight billion dollars in damage. Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive disasters have ever occurred in the United States, but it also revealed a catastrophic government at all levels’ failure in responding to the contingency.

Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive hurricanes to whirl through the southern states of America in 2005, is probably one of the worst natural disasters of the United States in the 21st century. Damages from the storm were estimated at more than $100 billion . People living in the southern states fled north to reach safety from the storm after hearing about it being a category five hurricane on the news a few mornings before Katrina hit the shore. Authorities were doing what they were supposed to be doing, telling everyone to seek shelter, board up windows, head north and prepare for the storm. Everything in the beginning appeared to be just another

Paragraph 4: the strengths and the weakness to the media outlet. CNN news and History Channel both provide informations and facts but they both take out little pieces of informations. CNN news may not be true to other media sources because media like ABC news and Chicago news other media sources may have the same details. History channel will give the time of the 9/11 attack and the day it happened and the place it was took at. History channel sometimes may not give you all the details and more informations.

It is clear that in each article I was only getting one side not the full report of the story. However, I do feel that CNN.com did a more accurate look at my topic, which was the Pope at the Paris Summit. The reason I believe that U.S. News’s article is not as good of a news source because when reading it, reads more like a complaint, or a letter to the editor type article than an actual news article on the topic of the Paris Summit. The U.S. News article only had one source and he was a self proclaimed official source, where as the CNN.com piece actually had quotes from several of the different members that were at the summit as well has official comments from Pope Francis. Also the CNN.com piece was worded nicely and had an air throughout the piece of just wanting to give the facts of the story, whereas the U.S News article was force feeding complaints and used wording that almost half way through I just wanted to stop reading because it was an opinion packed piece and only really a few times hinted at facts. Therefore, I would have to say that the CNN.com piece not only gave me facts that I wanted to learn it also peaked my interest in the topic and made me want to go out and research more about the topic from other sites, which I feel is good journalism because it’s hooked the reader unlike the U.S. News piece that was not very factual and made me want to stop

When watching Fox News and CNN on October 3rd, two days after the Las Vegas Massacre when discussing this topic, which is a very sore topic to be talking about both the news channels responded in ways that anyone would to finding out about this horrible crime that was committed. When watching Fox News cover the Massacre they were able to get a call into country singer, Jake Owens, who was on the side of the stage, when the shots first started whereas on CNN they were only giving out the information and updates that was allowed to be told to the public. Immediately after I watched the news I read the New York Times newspaper and the Wall Street Journal for the dates of October 4th and 5th on gun violence and the Las Vegas Massacre. When looking for writings on the Las Vegas Massacre I realized that the pickings were slim and that they did not have any summaries on what occurred on October 1st but they did have articles on how much it would be to pay back the police, EMT’s and others who helped out after the massacre and things found on his computer that he had searched for SWAT tactics and investigators found that there was a flash drive missing from the computer that Stephen had probably destroyed. When watching CNN and Fox News again a week later I found that the questions of whether or not gun control was going to be put in place to stop crazy events like this again. The CNN news had a very strong view of guns being bad and for supporting gun laws whereas Fox

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive hurricanes to ever hit the United States, causing damage across the entire Southeast, with the harshest conditions falling on the city of New Orleans. This hurricane began as the consequence of a tropical wave encountering the traces of an earlier tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico. Once the wave and depression interacted, a new depression formed, located right near the Bahamas. This depression intensified exponentially, developing into a complete hurricane. Katrina wreaked havoc for slightly less than a week before subsiding over the eastern Great Lakes. This hurricane had catastrophic social and economic effects on the Southeast requiring a lengthy reconstruction period.

1) The article from PBS focused mainly on the soldiers, while the VA website focused on the general topic.

Hurricane Katrina resulted in massive loss of life and billions of dollars in property damage. There are many lessons worth learning from this event. Finger pointing started before the event was over. Most of the focus on Hurricane Katrina was on its impact on New Orleans; however, the storm ravaged a much wider area than that. This paper will briefly summarize the event, the impact on the city of New Orleans and the lessons learned to ensure preparedness today.

Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast with tremendous force at daybreak, August 29, 2005, severely punishing regions that included the city of New Orleans and its neighboring state Mississippi. Resulting in a total of just over 1700 people killed, and hundreds of thousands missing. When we think of Hurricane Katrina stories, we think of stories that were published by the media such as, “Packing 145-mile-an-hour winds as it made landfall, the category 3 storm left more than a million people in three states without power and submerged highways even hundreds of miles from its center. The hurricane's storm surge a 29-foot wall of water pushed ashore when the hurricane struck the Gulf Coast was the highest ever measured in the United States.