Exhibit: Covering Katrina By the time Hurricane Irene had finished dumping buckets over Queens, the media was full-throatedly debating whether they had devoted too much of their attention to the storm. Some folks argued that the storm received wall-to-wall coverage because, unlike previous hurricanes, it posed an inconvenience to media-saturated cities like D.C. and New York. Still others countered that the media didn't cover the storm enough, that it switched to navel-gazing just in time to miss Irene beat the living daylights out of Vermont. While the jury's still out on Irene coverage, it gave itself a happy verdict on Hurricane Katrina. To review what the media believe they did right before, during, and after the worst storm in history, the Newseum has created an exhibit that "chronicles the dramatic tale of the media's reporting of the killer storm." To Sept. 18 at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Phone: 888/639-7386. Web: newseum.org.
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