Return of the Free Press?

checkoutCheck out CNN's newfound contempt of political B.S.Anderson Cooper breaks through Senator Mary Landrieu's wall of self-congratulatory whitewashing.And here's Soledad O'Brien knocking apart FEMA director Mike Brown's sad excuse-making:SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: How is it possible that we're getting better intel than you're getting? We had a crew in the air. We were showing live pictures of the people outside of the Convention Center. We had a National Guardsman who was talking to us, who was telling us he estimated the crowd at 50,000 people. That was at 8:00 in the morning yesterday. And also, we've been reporting that officials have been telling people to go to the Convention Center if they want any hope of relief. I don't understand how FEMA cannot have this information.BROWN: Well, we're busy doing life-saving and life-rescue efforts. We rely upon the state to give us that information. And, Soledad, I learned about it listening to the news reports.SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: FEMA has been on the ground for four days, going into the fifth day. Why no massive airdrop of food and water? In Banda Aceh, in Indonesia, they got food dropped two days after the tsunami struck.Perhaps out of the ashes of flamboyant governmental incompetence, the phoenix of journalistic integrity is born?

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