Hurricane Katrina Presentation Summary

The goal of this presentation is to show and explain effective and ineffective examples of the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Before looking at the coverage by various news sources of Hurricane Katrina, we first examined how previous Hurricanes were covered. To do this, we looked at a clip of NBC News in July of 2005 of the media coverage of Hurricane Dennis.

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While there was some effective reporting done, much of the media coverage was framed in such a way which made the effectiveness of the media coverage of the event mixed. This also sets up the views that many Americans have of Katrina, because the media played a very important role in shaping the minds of their viewers and many news outlets framed the event incorrectly.