Mr. AMOSS: Which makes it all the more inexplicable that help arrived so late.
We're joined by the editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, James Amoss.
Mr. AMOSS: Certainly state and local officials are not blameless in this.
Mr. AMOSS: It's preposterous to say that this was unforeseeable, but not to toot our horn too much but we, for one, foresaw it.
Mr. AMOSS: Whether it happens in New Orleans or someplace else.
Seeing page views jump from 700, 000 a day to 30 million during the storm "made instant converts out of even the most reluctant of us, " says Amoss.
For their efforts, America's journalism establishment lavished praise and awards on the paper and its longtime editor Jim Amoss, including Pulitzer Prizes for public service and breaking news.
Mr. AMOSS: Poor people of all races but predominantly African-American.
"We're fundamentally well positioned in this market, " Amoss says.
Mr. JAMES AMOSS (Editor, New Orleans Times-Picayune): Thank you.
Amoss, who wrote a moving plea in the Washington Post after the storm, calling on the country not to turn away from his hometown, says there's a deeper bond with the community as a result.
Mr. AMOSS: Who is at fault and whether the fault is a Republican fault or a Democratic fault is not so important as what flows prospectively for the nation from how we respond and whether it's something that's intrinsic to the way we're set up and structured and whether it can be avoided whenever the next disaster of this magnitude happens.
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