Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy

No wonder people don't trust the media...

By Susannah Rosenblatt and James Rainey
LA Times Staff Writers

BATON ROUGE, La. — Maj. Ed Bush recalled how he stood in the bed of a pickup truck in the days after Hurricane Katrina, struggling to help the crowd outside the Louisiana Superdome separate fact from fiction. Armed only with a megaphone and scant information, he might have been shouting into, well, a hurricane.