FNC’s Katrina 5th Anniversary Coverage…

The New York Daily News’ Richard Huff writes about Shepard Smith and FNC’s 5th Anniversary Katrina Coverage…

“Afterward, I did a lot of questioning about what had just happened,” Smith says, “that the world could see them suffering and no one came to help.”

Smith still gets upset thinking about the devastation – and what hasn’t happened since then.

“There are people in south Mississippi that still don’t have their lives back together,” he says. “There are kids that didn’t get to go to college because Mommy and Daddy lost everything and their lives changed forever.”

Though not big on marking the anniversary, Smith knows it is important to remind viewers. The tendency is to just move to the next story, the next crisis, and not consider the implications of what happened. “It’s our job to document those changes and not let people forget,” he says. “And not to let people rewrite history.”

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