Abstract
Catastrophe and Television in the Wake of Katrina: This essay offers a meta-critique of the televised cable news coverage of Hurricane Katrina, examining published evaluations of the reporting in the earliest hours of the disaster, with a particular focus on the moments in which normative network news practices and rituals "broke down." The critics of the Katrina coverage reiterate tensions between conflicting journalistic epistemologies, most clearly manifest in disagreements between reporters "on location" and network anchors in distant studios. In these public arguments, discourses of journalistic authority are tangibly challenged and the efficiencies of professionalized knowledge resisted by "senses of place."
Recommended Citation
Classen, Steve
(2009)
""Reporters Gone Wild": Reporters and Their Critics on Hurricane Katrina, Gender, Race & Place,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.336
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol2/iss1/7