Last week, I wrote a post about two stories reported for the New Orleans Times-Picayune by Brian Thevenot. The first was filed from the New Orleans Convention Center and contained accounts of murders and 30 to 40 bodies in a freezer. The second was the blockbuster piece in which Thevenot and others reported that much of the media coverage of the situations at the Superdome and Convention Center, including Thevenot’s own report, contained unverifiable or false accounts of widespread murders, rapes and violence. The story led me and other bloggers to call on other news organizations to correct the record as thoroughly as the Times-Picayune had done. Some, like the LA Times, did a better job than others, like NBC.

In my post, I noted that Thevenot’s first report contained “eyewitness scenes” and it wasn’t always clear what Thevenot saw and what an Arkansas National Guardsman had related to him. I asked, “what did Thevenot hear from the Arkansas National Guardsmen and what did he witness with his own eyes? I e-mailed him but I haven’t heard back. I am interested in the answer because it might explain how other reporters were led astray on this story