BERICHTGEVING

Welke krant leest U? In Vlaanderen maakt het in ieder geval geen verschil. Of soms wel, maar dat heeft met taalfouten en zetfouten te maken. In ieder geval kon je in De Morgen, De Standaard, Het Laatste Nieuws, Het Nieuwsblad en De Tijd, hetzelfde voorgekauwde artikel over Vijf Jaar Katrina lezen. Enkel Gazet van Antwerpen en haar zuster Het Belang van Limburg, namen het voorgekauwde artikel niet volledig over, lieten een aantal paragrafen vallen en schreven "in grote gebieden kwam in een ruk blank te staan".
En toen sloeg ik er de Washington Post eropna en las wat ze in Vlaanderen allemaal waren vergeten te zeggen:

African Americans are more than twice as likely as whites to say they have not yet recovered after Katrina, the survey found. And blacks in the city are 2 1/2 times as likely to be low-income than whites.
"I just knew we had a rotten deal," said Edward Randolph, a disabled Vietnam veteran who with his wife, Angela, has been struggling to rebuild their duplex in New Orleans East. "We know we have a lot to do, but we just do not have the money to do it."
The storm propelled them on a years-long odyssey through Port Arthur, Tex., Houston and Arkansas. They did not return to their still-damaged home until 2008.
The federally funded rebuilding program established by Louisiana officials - called Road Home - offered homeowners grants of up to $150,000. But homeowners could not collect more than the pre-storm value of their homes, regardless of the cost of repairs.
The Randolph home was valued at just $135,000, although repair costs were estimated by the state to be $308,000. The Randolphs were awarded a grant of $16,649, to supplement just over $100,000 they received in insurance payment