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Hurricane Katrina
Monday, August 29, 2005   By: Juan Paxety

Hurricane on the way

Hurricane Katrina is coming ashore in Louisiana and Mississippi (and probably Alabama) as I write this. The media is doing its usual sometimes good/sometimes absurd job.  Art Bell showed why he is the king of overnight radio.  Last night was one of the two nights a month he hosts Coast to Coast AM, and he did his usual excellent job. Art's best known, of course, for his UFO shows, but when a big news story comes along, he shows his excellence as an intelligent interviewer.

The network TV people are already over the top. ABC has dramatic music - then faded up on Charles Gibson in the midst of a pencil throwing fit.

The blogs are covering something that's pretty well ignored by the major media. While the networks are concentrating on New Orleans, Ward is posting at Hog On Ice about the effect the storm may have on oil production and importation.  In addition to the oil platforms in the Gulf that will have to shut down, Port Fourchon (FooShawn) is in the path and is connected to the mainland only by a  single, two-lane bridge. Read the whole thing.

 

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