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response to Katrina

The Katrina cartoons in the Washington Post are suprisingly tame. Consider these two:

Chip Bok

And:

Signe Wilkinson

See what I mean?

The authorities knew Hurricane Katrina would happen. They had been warned and they knew the consequences for the city if the levees gave way:

Yet little actually happened in terms of emergency response for days.

So why are the cartoons so soft?

Maybe the situation is too difficult for the American mainstream press to handle?

A list of Katrina blogs

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at September 5, 2005 11:16 PM | TrackBack