The document discusses effective and ineffective media coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Effective coverage during Katrina provided accurate, updated information from credible sources without dramatization. It also gave proactive advice on what citizens should do. Ineffective coverage jumped to conclusions, undermined the emergency, or lacked context. After Katrina, effective coverage constructively addressed relief efforts and government response, while ineffective coverage divided groups or undermined the seriousness of the situation.

1. Katrina COVERAGE PRESENTATION BY Megan, elizabeth, cindy, jimmy, & glenn

3. Weather Forecasts

4. Explains vulnerability of New Orleans

6. Article touches on key questions that people would want to know.

7. Are people leaving?

8. Can they leave?

9. Are people stranded?

10. Why is there such a sense of fear?

12. Credible Sources

13. Factual instead of dramatized

15. Undermines the state of emergency

16. Lack of Context

18. Emotional triggering with pictures and video clips of the people and the damagehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVT74piVBGw

22. Dallas Morning News reports, “most Katrina evacuees will learn to move past their tragedy.”