The author writes that there is no more telling indictment of reporters and editors than the surprise felt by most Americans in seeing the raw poverty among New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina. In an open society, nobody who had been watching television or reading newspapers should have been surprised by what Katrina "revealed," to use the word so widely uttered in the aftermath. The fissures of race and class should be "revealed" every day by America's free press. Why aren't they?