A new media crisis has opened surrounding the reporting on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. After the dust has settled, it turns out that most of the horrified stories being reported as fact by the press were in fact merely rumors being picked up in the emotionally-charged Superdome and other refugee hang-outs. The fact that then public officially then picked up the stories and ran with them in an attempt to get more money and manpower to the region. The excuse given by the media masters? Bad telephone connections. i.e. Since they could not get anything confirmed *or* denied, they assumed it was true.
Way to go, media ethicists.
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