Not much new in this AP report, but good to see the AP is also working to correct the record here:

The ugliest reports — children with slit throats, women dragged off and raped, corpses piling up in the basement — soon became a searing image of post-Katrina New Orleans.
The stories were told by residents trapped inside the Superdome and convention center and were repeated by public officials. Many news organizations, including The Associated Press, carried the witness accounts and official pronouncements, and in some cases later repeated the claims as fact, without attribution.
But now, a month after the chaos subsided, police are re-examining the reports and finding that many of them have little or no basis in fact.

The AP leads with the exaggerations of NOPD Chief Eddie Compass and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin that babies were being raped and that hooligans were killing people in the Superdome.

Jonah asks, “… at every turn [Nagin] uttered one sensational untruth after another to the press. Why isn’t the press punishing him for it?” Both the LA Times and now the AP have now featured Nagin’s exaggerations prominently, so you could argue that the press is starting to.