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Amid the chaos and tragedy on the Gulf Coast was an astonishing sight: Newspeople, unscripted and unrehearsed, used their own hearts and minds to make sense of events on the ground as they brought us authentic reporting–troubling, engaged and real.

Absent press releases, official briefings and the expected spin, the press has behaved brilliantly, living up to Thomas Jefferson’s admonition to bring comfort to the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.