You could tell Katrina was going to be a different kind of political event when Ted Koppel, the most deferential of interviewers, eviscerated FEMA director Michael Brown on Nightline in the week after Katrina hit. Mercilessly interrupting him and rejecting the excuses for FEMA's incompetence, Koppel made Brown look like the failed horse show organizer that he was. We saw this repeatedly in the first weeks following the storm, as those who convey the news steadily became more deeply moved and enraged by the death and degradation unnecessarily set upon thousands of American citizens who had the temerity to be black, poor, and reside in New Orleans when a powerful hurricane came through.
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