Summary
Kunkel talks about the media coverage of Hurricane Ivan which struck New Orleans in the summer of 2004. All the front pages of big newspapers carried a story so full of apocalyptic visions . He wonders whether the people's reaction to the calamity caused by the hurricane would be so visceral if the devastated community was Augusta or Boca Raton.
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The Curse of Prescience
A late-summer hurricane was barreling toward New Orleans, and the front page carried a story so full of apocalyptic visions that one could be forgiven for thinking this was the Book of Revelations instead of the Washington Post.
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