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...resigned themselves to the fact that their homes, as they are now, are lost to them, most, like Hagan, dug in their heels on the controversial subject of whether the vulnerable, low-lying Ninth-surrounded by canals and the Mississippi River-should be allowed to rise from Katrina's muck. "How many times have they rebuilt Florida after something like this?" asked Hagan, a housekeeper for the nearby Jefferson Barracks that house the National Guard. "They're just gonna have to improve those levees, because we're stayin...
...Wretched and the Dead Your Katrina photo essay "Ghost Town" [Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...
Your Katrina photo essay "Ghost Town" [Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating face-down in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of Katrina, but it was shock journalism...
...trip down Canal was surreal; we floated over one of the city's main arteries, the murky water varying in depth from inched to more than 10 feet. At times we found ourselves paddling over the tops of pickup trucks. Looking down into the muck to avoid hitting cars and up to maneuver around low hanging power lines and tree branches, we came upon a flatboat filled with law enforcement officials, who were skeptical about our presence, but reluctantly allowed us to continue. Above us a steady stream of helicopters circled, patrolling the area from...
...secret to some of the best HBO series is dirt. Not filthy language, not nudity--actual dirt. The muck in the streets of Deadwood, Tony Soprano's soldiers exhuming an incriminating body, the Fisher family tossing shovelfuls in the grave as Six Feet Under buried its lead character Nate--all this soil embodies the network's insistence on deprettifying its subjects...