Katrina through a different lens - Ethnic news organizations provide

[Jon8503]

new angles on U.S. disaster

Tuesday, September 13, 2005; Posted:


With passion and pride, ethnic news organizations in the United States are sending reporters, photographers and TV crews to the disaster area and covering the Hurricane Katrina story from angles not seen in many of the nation's major metropolitan newspapers.

At times, the ethnic media have been more opinionated and outspoken, and in many cases have taken a more activist approach than mainstream news organizations and tried to help members of their ethnic groups who have suffered from the storm.

For example, they have been reuniting families and finding housing for refugees, said Daffodil Altan, associate editor of New California Media, a nationwide association of more than 700 ethnic media groups.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/13/katrina.ethnic.media.ap/index.html