While reading part one of the tribulations at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katarina, investigating journalist Sheri Fink depicts the serve decisions and repercussion doctors made. A reader can feel that Fink showed biasness while writing these pieces, because there are certain parts of the text that indications her resent or misunderstanding of Pou and the other doctors. She included a quote from a doctor stating, “we spend too much on these turkeys… we ought to let them go,” which shows that these doctors are careless and no remorse was shown.
Even though I feel that Fink shows biases and attempts to bring an enlightened view of the events that occurred, as a journalist she also needs to be fair. Within one of the paragraphs, she notes that the beliefs of Pou will never be known but she is active in trying to change emergency protocol. This can show that Pou is regretful for what has happened and she wants to avoid these events from happening again at any hospital.
One of the aspects that are unique about these articles is that Fink takes a topic that many readers are aware of and changes the direction of it. Instead of reporting the events and the transcripts of court cases, she dives into the evidence and talks to people that were at the hospital. Fink takes the reader on journey from the moment the hospital enters Hurricane Katrina to the moments when those deadly decisions were made. She is able to make the reader visualization and feel they were part of the events that happened.
