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Article: Katrina not just another story for Gulf Coast journalists.(Hurricane Katrina, damage, media coverage)
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 26, 2005
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Reporters dream about covering that really big story. And there can be no doubt that when it comes to big stories, Hurricane Katrina just may be the story of a lifetime for many journalists.
But especially for reporters on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, this big story is more nightmare than dream. Like everyone else on the Gulf Coast, where it is estimated that only one in ten homes escaped any damage from Hurricane Katrina, many reporters had flooding and/or lost their homes and automobiles.
Normally getting a ride in a helicopter as part of a story assignment would be considered a nice perk. But it didn't work that way for the political editor of The Sun ...