Rita Cosby Quotes

We were not at all solely relying on (information from) family members. The hospital spokeswoman was on my air live saying that she was told that the miners were coming to her hospital and ... they were alive. We had a local fire chief who was told that 12 miners were alive. He got his information from the command center. I interviewed Chris Hamilton, the senior vice president for the West Virginia Coal Association. So we had multiple, multiple sources and multiple official sources.

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It has given us more sensitivity.

(The human side of Katrina '” tales of agony and misery that thousands of Katrina`s victims still endure a month after the storm '” also has gripped many reporters, who want to stay on the story indefinitely.) Katrina made a lot of us in the media realize that we can`t undersell a hurricane, ... News organizations, the government, everybody now realizes you`ve got to take Mother Nature seriously.

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To see the damage that I saw when I covered Katrina will stay with me forever.

They can be as angry as they want to. They ought to be ashamed. They`re the ones that let a pedophile go.

Katrina made a lot of us in the media realize that we can`t undersell a hurricane. News organizations, the government, everybody now realizes you`ve got to take Mother Nature seriously.