I believe that there were horrors and atrocities, murders and rapes. Just not nearly as many as people thought, even the people who were witnesses or near-witnesses.

I do, however, think that the story about the surprisingly small number of bodies found in the Convention Center and Superdome deserved to be front page news, not buried on page 10. In some ways, the urban legend aspect of the complete story is more newsworthy than the shock value of the original stories. Certainly you need both sets of stories to form a complete picture of what just happened.