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Newsweak's yellow journalism

Examples of gross negligence and sheer ineptitude on the part of local officials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have been extensively cataloged elsewhere. I will not rehash them here, but suffice it to say, none of them made their way into Newsweak's latest hatchet piece, entitled How Bush Blew It.

The story itself is nonetheless interesting, if for no other reason than as a case study for the pathetic state of journalism in American today.

By the way, does anyone else remember how after that whole "Koran flushing" debacle Newsweak pledged to rely much less heavily on "unnamed sources?" Yeah, well, I guess they changed their minds about that.