On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina decimated every mile of Mississippi's inland coastline. Hundreds
were killed, tens of thousands were left homeless and more than one million were affected by the storm in Mississippi.
The above photo is typical up and down the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It shows the complete destruction of a neighborhood in Biloxi, Mississippi. While the above photo is typical of the destruction along the Mississippi Coast, there was no photography that
could accurately depict how bad the damages were when seen first hand.
Hurricane Katrina and the stunning lack of journalistic integrity: "...to national media, New Orleans is THE story - to the extent that if the Mississippi Coast is mentioned at all it is often in an add-on paragraph that mentions "and the Gulf Coast" or "and Mississippi and Alabama..." "So, why does that matter?
It matters first as it relates to journalism's obligations to cover human beings whose conditions are as dire as those that exist here..."
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