Keeping Up with the Disaster

Michael Froomkin, who has suffered through his own share of hurricanes, is keeping tabs on the Katrina aftermath at Discourse.net. Go take a look at the latest.

And I offer this from Laura Rosin, without comment:

There was a striking discrepancy between the CNN International report on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV.

ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time.

The people in the area were once again left to fend for themselves, said ZDF.