Networks learn harsh lessons from Katrina

NETWORKS LEARN HARSH LESSONS FROM KATRINA
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Paul J. Gough]
Two years after Hurricane Katrina forever changed the Gulf Coast, its echoes still reverberate throughout TV journalism. When Hurricane Dean formed earlier this month as the first major hurricane in the Atlantic basin since the 2005 season ended, the networks leapt into action using plans that have been finely tuned since Katrina made landfall August 29, 2005, leaving nearly 2,000 people dead and 1 million or more displaced. Soon after the disaster, the networks broke down their responses to it -- what went right and what went wrong -- and found that the plans they had made in advance for a natural disaster didn't scale when faced with a story of Katrina proportions.
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