FEMA and the Effects of Cycle Theory: Hurricane Katrina

The cycle theory espousing the idea that after a government agency is established it tends to protect the interests of the regulated industry instead of the public can be considered in light of media responses to the performance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after Hurricane Katrina struck the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. FEMA, according to its former director, Michael Brown, is poorly structured and is unable to respond to the kind of mass devastation brought about by a natural disaster (Previch, 1). FEMA's response to Katrina was belated, inadequate, and ineffective. Some three years after the hurricane, FEMA continues to struggle with the rebuilding effort in Louisiana and Missis

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