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HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA
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This 5-page paper focuses on two articles debunking the rumors reported as fact during the days and weeks following landfalls by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.
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of land across the Gulf Coast, especially inundating New Orleans and Mississippi with flood waters and winds. Despite assurances of the governments and agencies that they were, indeed, prepared, for
the wrath of these storms, the reality turned out to be something far different. In the days and weeks that followed, Katrinas landfall, the media reported and televised gruesome and
horrifying images to the rest of the U.S. and world - a city 80% under water, people stranded on rooftops and crying for help, and reports of crime, murder and
other acts of atrocities among refugees seeking shelter in the Superdome. Also reported were snipers firing at U.S. Coast Guard helicopters in their attempts to rescue stranded citizens.
But, as it turned out later on, many of the rumors were false, and wildly exaggerated. In this essay, well answer questions about the
media coverage regarding Hurricane Katrina, relying on information from "They Shoot Helicopters, Dont They? How Journalists Spread Rumors During Katrina," an article written by Matt Welch and printed in the
December 1, 2005 issue of Reason magazine. For the second set of questions, well refer to Havidan Rodgriguez and Russell Dynes article "Finding and Framing Katrina: The Social Construction of
Disaster," which was published on June 11, 2006 on the Social Science Research Councils Web site (www.ssrc.org). They Shoot Helicopters The truth
was, no one fired on helicopters, at least, not according to spokespeople with the U.S. Coast Guard the Civil Air Patrol, which also flew aid missions. The closest confirmed report
of gun fire was a young man who fired a hand gun out the window while helicopters were flying overhead. Nor were there rape victims at the Convention Center or
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