Harvey refocuses the national media
by By Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Aug 30, 2017
3 minutes
Something unusual happened to national television news this week. News.
Footage of reporters in soggy rain slickers and melting baseball caps, waist-deep in brackish water, delivering minute-by-minute accounts from flooded boulevards in Beaumont, Texas, packed evacuation centers in Houston, and harrowing boat and helicopter rescues in Corpus Christi and Cuero.
Interviews with fire department chiefs and meteorologists replaced the usual prime-time political panels on CNN. Reports of a levee breach ate up MSNBC airtime usually reserved for analysts' deconstruction of President Donald Trump's latest gaffe.
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