NOLA Deaths greatly exaggerated

Lots of stories concerning Hurricane Katrina and its chaos and aftermath are turning out to be wild exaggerations or outright lies.

The NO Times-Picayune admits it.

Michelle Malkin has quite a lot on the subject (no surprise, there), including the thoughts of the Powerline guys who have some questions for the press about accountability. Good questions, too. I think they should be asked, since – as Drudge highlighted this morning – Hillary Clinton thinks there should be “gatekeepers” who can get stories right. More on that – lots more – in another post, tonight.

Confederate Yankee notes this other lie, here

Laura Lee suggests the press was playing a screwed up game of telephone and wonders without much optimisim if the press will apologize to the president. Yeah, that’s gonna happen.

We’re always hearing that self-examination is good for the soul. Oprah says it. Katie Couric says it. The press en masse say that W should “examine” his policies and his actions and admit when he has made a mistake. They SAY it. They don’t do it themselves, but they SAY it.

Everything and everyone ever involved with levees, New Orleans or Katrina – including the media – needs looking at.

Yes, I am still grumpy.

Lorie at Polipundit has has more – and lots of links.