“Katrina made a lot of us in the media realize that we can't undersell a hurricane. News organizations, the government, everybody now realizes you've got to take Mother Nature seriously.”
“[The human side of Katrina — tales of agony and misery that thousands of Katrina's victims still endure a month after the storm — also has gripped many reporters, who want to stay on the story indefinitely.] Katrina made a lot of us in the media realize that we can't undersell a hurricane, ... News organizations, the government, everybody now realizes you've got to take Mother Nature seriously.”
“We were not at all solely relying on [information from] family members. The hospital spokeswoman was on my air live saying that she was told that the miners were coming to her hospital and ... they were alive. We had a local fire chief who was told that 12 miners were alive. He got his information from the command center. I interviewed Chris Hamilton, the senior vice president for the West Virginia Coal Association. So we had multiple, multiple sources and multiple official sources.”
