NOLA.com: OPINION – A Weblog By The Times Picayune

During Hurricane Betsey, then-Mayor Vic Schiro famously said, “Don’t believe any false rumors unless you hear them from me.” Unfortunately, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, some of the most lurid rumors of violence in the Superdome and the New Orleans Convention Center came from those in charge: Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Eddie Compass. And now it appears they were mostly false.

Here is another article lamenting the rumors spread by people we would normally trust.