Lorie Byrd takes issue with the Oprah show's characterization of the gulf coast as a third world country.

I saw that show as well and found myself irritated at the blatant manipulation by good liberal-left journalists speaking "truth to power". Not that there is anything wrong with doing a Katrina story and the progress (or lack of it) at restore the gulf coast to its former "glory", but speaking truth to power always seems to really mean "fake, but accurate".

A few days ago, I wrote a post about this same show where the Oprah camera crew appears to have altered a search and rescue marking on a ruined house so that Lisa Ling could intone "somebody died in there". Shades of Killian!

Obvious Oprah doesn't have the journalistic stature of Dan Rather (lucky her...), but as a former journalist, she should know better, and as someone whose entire career is based on the trust she has with her audience, this is inexcusable.