Cursor's Media Patrol - 09/02/05

U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana whose "guess" about the death toll from Katrina in his state is that "it will start at 10,000," also "said he gave the federal government a grade 'F' for its response to the disaster so far," reports AFP.

A CNN reporter said that people he talked to at the Pentagon, "seemed to question the motives of some of our reporters ... about why they had so much sympathy for the victims, and not as much sympathy for the challenges that the government met in meeting this challenge."