Has Katrina saved US media?

-- Cartoon by Stuart Carlson, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

While self-styled media critics on the right decry Katrina coverage by the media as unfair to the Bushies and Brownies of the world, a BBC writer asks whether Katrina might actually have saved the U.S. media by waking up the comfortable old lapdog.

Jessica McBride, who's been especially tough on the media, has a new reader.