Via Andrew Sullivan: Slate’s Jack Shafer documents how angry journalists have stopped rolling over and started to question the official spin on Katrina:

In the last couple of days, many of the broadcasters reporting from the bowl-shaped toxic waste dump that was once the city of New Orleans have stopped playing the role of wind-swept wet men facing down a big storm to become public advocates for the poor, the displaced, the starving, the dying, and the dead.