Victor Davis Hanson’s latest column, about the media and Katrina, was, as the Brits say, spot on.
For all the media’s efforts to
turn the natural disaster of New Orleans into either a racist
nightmare, a death knell for one or the other political parties or an
indictment of American culture at large, it was none of that at all.
What we did endure instead were slick but poorly educated journalists,
worried not about truth but about preempting their rivals with an ever
more hysterical story, all in a fuzzy context of political correctness
about race, the environment and the war.
