HURRICANE KATRINA COVERAGE
How much is too much?

This blog entry doesn't necessarily go to a particular story, but the whole paper and perhaps all media combined.
When every single day almost every single story in the paper is about something having to do with Hurricane Katrina, it can get a little overwhelming. I think by now everyone knows about the horror inflicted by its wrath upon the Gulf coast and that money and other kinds of help are needed to improve the situation. I am not saying don't cover the hurricane and its effects at all; that would be wrong. Maybe limit it to two or three stories instead of five or six.
Other newspapers and media outlets are just as guilty of this as well. Television news stations are going 24/7 with Katrina stories. How are we supposed to know if anything else important is going on in the nation or world? The death of William Rehnquist caused a brief interruption in the hurricane coverage, but not much. The decision on who will be his replacement isn't getting a lot of coverage either.

Link to the 9/6 News Index of the Missourian: http://www.digmo.org/news/?day=2005-09-06