'Sun Herald' Editorial Asks that Media Not Forget Mississippi

By: E&P Staff In a front-page, unsigned editorial yesterday, the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., warned that the effects of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi cost has started to fade "into a black hole of media obscurity," especially when compared with the ongoing coverage of the disaster in New Orleans.

"Never mind that, if taken alone, the destruction in Mississippi would represent the single greatest natural disaster in 229 years of American history," the editorial reads. "The telling of Katrina by national media has created the illusion of the hurricane's impact on our Coast as something of a footnote."

The editorial concludes by saying:

"On the third day after Katrina crushed us, this newspaper appealed to America: 'Help us now,' the headline implored. America answered with an outpouring of love and help. That response saved us then.

"Our plea to newspapers and television and radio and Web sites across the land is no less important today: Please, tell our story. Hear the voice of our people and tell it far and wide. We are here. Do not forsake us. We are no footnote."

Here rest of the Sun Herald editorial, titled "Mississippi's Invisible Coast," can be found here.