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Ladies gentlemen, first of all, this is the end of the week that marks the 19th anniversary of what one investigator

from UC Berkeley called, quote,

the greatest man-made engineering catastrophe

since Chernobyl, unquote. That was the flooding of New Orleans. Not due to a hurricane.

The hurricane passed by New failed in more than 53 locations built by the U.S. Army Corps of the

Hurricane Protection System that failed in more than 53 locations built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

As I say, this is the 19th anniversary of that event.

If you want to know more about it there's a documentary

film out on the subject with a great deal of documentation called the

Big Un Easy the media, for the most part, with a couple of exceptions, totally

failed to correctly cover this story. They came down to New Orleans in the wake of the

flood, stayed for a week or two, split.

NBC said they were going to set up a bureau

to follow up on this, you know, to keep covering the story

as new things developed. I once went into the NBC

affiliate building in New Orleans and asked where the NBC Bureau was and they pointed to an empty

desk in the back of the room. It was a moment for me to reconfigure my previous regard for the journalism industry.

I had been an editor on my school newspaper. I had written for

several publications as a budding young journalist.

And I thought, hi, leave the profession and the flooding incident changed all that and the fact that a one-time

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