Bloggers and the Katrina news cycle

From Sreenath Sreenivasan, Dean of Students:

"A friend of mine who works at a major network, sent me the following note.

If you would like to do what he suggests (with his help), e-mail me at sree@sree.net - Thanks...


Katrina provides a great case study of how stories gain traction. Example-the case of class and the role it played in this tragedy.I'd like to see a map of how thoughts progressesed from blog to smallprint to narrowcast to broadcast and big print - and if ever-into action.Example: bloggers pick up AP v AFP. Narrowcasters rope together a 20minute show on it - becomes an undercurrent to broadcasts - and big printclimbs on board - perhaps it's not an appropriate day 2 or 3 story - but astudent could pull this stuff together. Use other examples of storiesregarding the hyatt and ritz evacuations and how much press they got etc.Let me know if there is anyone at the school working on this and how I can be of help/get involved."