Reporters Comb New Orleans For Heartwarming Story

NEW ORLEANS—Journalists and TV-news crews continued to comb the wreckage of New Orleans for a heartwarming story last week. “We thought we found a cute lost puppy on a rooftop, but when I tried to retrieve him, he chewed me up pretty good,” CNN reporter Gary Tuchman said. “At least we did better than those guys from WGN—they thought they’d reunited an elderly married couple, but they just happened to have similar last names, and the guy raped the old lady to death in the Superdome basement.” Many reporters have abandoned the heartwarming angle, instead concentrating on looting houses in the exclusive Port Charles neighborhood.