See Full New Orleans Police Beating Video Just Released

One thing that I noticed, having cable provided where I'm living, is that there can be substantially different coverage between cable news stations. Local news stations tend to have lower variance I suppose.

Something that has really bothered me and others is that before they had even searched the full area, located all the bodies (which still hasn't been completed), and reunited families separated by the hurricanes who had lost everything, Headline news, Fox and some shows on MSNBC seemed to have returned to full 30 minute blocks of solid coverage of day 75 of the search for Natalee Holloway, and calling for a boycott of Aruba. There are also a couple other missing white upper-middle class people, who somehow pass the criteria to be considered as worthy as Lacey Peterson, who fill out this category of reporting. We don't have to explain how awful it is to clearly value the lives of a small handful of people over the mass misery entailed in the hurricanes in the south, landslides in the Guatemala hurricane, 7.6 earthquake in Kashmir, and the impending economy suffering in the U.S. this winter.

However, while CNN has different shows with hosts from different perspective (such as likely republicans Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs ) I was happy to see that the nightly news show with Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper had solid 45 minute blocks of coverage of this tape for two nights in a row, with good interviews with the police department trying to say that the victim had merely fallen to cause the profuse bleeding and black eye, and the senior citizen beating victim - who thankfully is a good speaker. It felt like they were rivaling the mono-coverage of Taylor Behl on the adjacent station, with intense coverage of a more appropriate subject. This might have been motivated by their cameraman getting assaulted by the police, and also from an earlie incident where one of their reporters tried to talk to a police officer in a hotel who had been looting, and he waved a gun at them.