Tim Rutten Quotes (4 Quotes)

They were, in the best sense of the word, enmeshed in each other's lives. As writers and people, they were one of those rare couples in which both people really appreciated in the other the things they appreciated in themselves.

Whatever the motive, federal misfeasance is getting the blame in many media anatomies of the catastrophe. Three years ago, ... New Orleans' leading local newspaper, the Times-Picayune, National Public Radio's signature nightly news program, 'All Things Considered,' and the New York Times each methodically and compellingly reported that the very existence of south Louisiana's leading city was at risk and hundreds of thousands of lives imperiled by exactly the sequence of events that occurred this week.

a disaster waiting to happen. ... If a bad hurricane hit, experts say, the city could fill up like a cereal bowl, killing tens of thousands and laying waste to the city's architectural heritage. If the Big One hit, New Orleans could disappear.

Politics may have failed the people of New Orleans. ... But their newspaper and other important segments of the American press did not fail them.