I just wanted to point out a couple of alternatives to
CNN for news on Hurricane Katrina.
- As usual, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show has offered some of the best commentary on the events as they've been unfolding. You can find a roundup of torrents at Common Bits, or you can just stream all the Daily Show segments every day over at the Comedy Central site.
- Boing Boing is covering the storm from a more on-the-ground point of view, offering all kinds of first-person accounts and survivor testimonials. They've also been covering a number of stories not handled by the mainstream media and have organized help requests.
- Wikipedia has a couple of excellent sites with just about everything you may need to know about the disaster.
- Newsweek has this interesting article called How Bush Blew It, which explains that through most of the past two weeks, the president was less aware of what was going on than the average American citizen.
The photo is of the eye of the storm, taken from an airplane window. It was found amidst Wikipedia's
coverage. You can see the full image
here.
