Media in 'Civil War'

The Katrina disaster saved SOME aspects of the US media - namely a few individual reporters and camera people - Brian Williams is a notable example. But alas, the "powers that be" in the media, and the cowardly butt-kissers who stayed behind or did a brief photo op (Matt Lauer comes to mind) are still entrenched. I heard that on NBC's "Today" this am that they were right back to focusing on "bad black people" - "good white soldiers and cops" in a "news story" about an a "shots fired" incident. This was followed by a focus on a guy who'd lost his father in 9/11, a slant obviously designed to say "Don't forget we're a nation at war" (Bush's excuse for everything.
Of course good ole Matt and his weasley ilk would never report that the people still left behind and holed up in places like Algiers parish have NO access to news, phone, or any other info. Some are joining junkies (very dangerous folk no matter what race), some are mentally ill who are now without medication, some are criminal types who believe the entire US army has been sent "to get them" (and I don't mean rescue). Where was the plan by FEMA or the police for dealing with such cases? Nonexistent. Yet the US military could get it together in Afghanistan to drop food (remember the yellow packets?) and informational fliers within a few days of reaching the region.
So I predict a sort of "civil war" between the journalists who have had an epiphany and now know what honorable journalism is and those who want to drag journalism back to "business as usual."