{"id":2219,"date":"2005-09-28T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T11:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2005\/09\/28\/a-journalist-living-humanely\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T11:31:44","slug":"a-journalist-living-humanely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2005\/09\/28\/a-journalist-living-humanely\/","title":{"rendered":"A journalist living humanely"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Charles\u2014TIME<\/span><\/i> magazine Miami Bureau Chief Tim Padgett \u201984 travels to New York next month to receive the Cabot Prize from Columbia University for his outstanding reporting on Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I’ve learned much and been moved by his recent coverage of the devastation caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf Coast.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span>Some of his best work is found at TIME Online.<\/i> His "Flying with a New Orleans Rescue Crew" snatches you up for a ride on a CH-53 helicopter called "Voodoo Child" as it takes to a sky "frenetically<\/span> dotted with all types and sizes of choppers, bobbing and weaving like bumblebees in a barely controlled chaos amidst the smoke of fires burning along the Mississippi River below."<\/span><\/p>\n

Padgett’s reporting illuminates challenges I’d never heard about in other coverage, such as the difficulty of providing air traffic control during the "saturation rescue scene" over New Orleans, and then takes you face to face with physically and mentally disabled survivors the crew plucks from the floodwaters. The final paragraph is as carefully observed as the best fiction, but this is reality at its most desperate. Padgett’s words burn these images on the brain and inspires compassion better than any photograph or video coverage I’ve seen.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can read the article at:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1101340,00.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And Padgett’s article, "The Complicated Mayor of New Orleans" asks if Ray Nagin is the right man to rebuild the Crescent City.<\/span> That one’s at:<\/span><\/p>\n

htt<\/span>p:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1109261,00.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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