Lot's of anger on the air, and plenty of it coming from places you don't expect.

On ABC - Chris Bury reported from a bridge on the highway for Nightline. As the day stretched on... and the heat, lack of food, and lack of information from officials continued to stretch on... Burry became angry. For him - it was personal.

``This is not Iraq, this is not Somalia, this is home,'' NBC reporter Martin Savidge said.

Anderson Cooper demanded that a poised and well coifed Democratic Sen. Mary Landreiu stop 'patting politicians on the back' while he stood among death and destruction. If you haven't seen this clip you should download it.

But most surprisingly - Shepard Smith on Fox News seemed unable to control his anger and government officials as the blocked the road leading FROM the superdome and forced starving and desperate American's to remain amid squaller and death.

What's going on? Well for one, it's awfully hard to be objective when you're smelling death, watching American's begging for help, and listening to a endless stream of lame excuses and press conferances.

What Katrina also reminds us - and perhaps many of the Journalists covering it - is just how critical journalism is. Citizen Journalists didn't have access to broadband connections, satelite trucks, or in some cases armed guards. Anyone who could get out of New Orleans got out. Only reporters who's job it is to go to dangerous and depressing locations would actually go IN to New Orleans. And that's why so many of them are so angry. To stand on American Soil - to be there without the expected official organization, security, and order, is just plain wrong. And thier anger, i would argue, is overdue.

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