Amidst this weekend’s wall-to-wall Ted Kennedy coverage, and the growing Sarah Palin anniversary retrospectives it was sometimes difficult to recall that Saturday marked the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans. Even Twitter seemed relatively quiet on the subject. Speaking of Twitter, it’s hard not to wonder how differently the aftermath of Katrina might have played out had Twitter been around just four years ago.

Coverage of Senator Edward Kennedy’s funeral and burial dominated this weekend. Both the networks and the cablers carried Saturday’s service live and then returned later in the day in order to broadcast Kennedy’s motorcade past the Capitol, and burial at Arlington National Cemetery. In case you missed any of it here’s a look at the top five moments from this weekend’s coverage.

The treatment of Senator Ted Kennedy’s death has received almost as much coverage as the death itself. Immediately, there were accusations of politicization from the right. Around the web, there has been the requisite cataloging of trollish actions and reactions, and the attendant pushback. But faced with the challenge of making the Kennedy funeral coverage less, well, funereal, Huffington Post has come up with a unique angle that ties it to the critically acclaimed AMC show Mad Men….

Here is a video and the transcript of President Barack Obama‘s eulogy for his friend and mentor, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, delivered at Senator Kennedy’s funeral yesterday in Boston, MA, before an assemblage of presidents, senators, congresspeople, journalists, constituents, colleagues, friends and family — the Kennedys, frequently likened to America’s Royal Family — who had all come to bid farewell to who Obama called “the greatest legislator of our time” — but also a loving and caring friend, father, uncle and mentor, guardian of those he represented.

Senator Ted Kennedy’s funeral is dominating the dials this morning. For those of you unable to get to a television both CNN.com and ABC News are carrying it live online (sans the history-rich coverage, alas), as is the NYT.com homepage. We also take a look at how the Twitterverse is reacting.

Headlines of late have been dominated by coverage of rowdy town hall meetings and Ted Kennedy coverage. However, yesterday’s horrific revelations that child kidnapper Philip Garrido had not only secretly been keeping Jaycee Dugard prisoner in his backyard for the last 18 years, but had also fathered two children with her, looks to be the story that will dominate headlines in the coming days.

Revealing thoughts, particularly abstract emotions in only 140 characters can not only be challenging, but can lead to misinterpretation, and in some cases outrage.

TPM’s Matt Cooper caused a minor Twit-storm, this afternoon, when he posted this bit of reflection on the mood in Martha’s Vineyard

Before the next (and probably the last) wave of Ted Kennedy magazine covers hit newsstands, we wanted to take a look at some of the Liberal Lion’s best cover cameo’s from the last five decades. Family, tragedy, scandal, political ambition,straight-up Kennedy bon vivance, even a goodbye — it’s all been on the cover. Slideshow inside.

Well the Summer of Death is officially coming to a close, and it looks like we’ve made it! There is an old saying that celebrity deaths come in groups of three, but this summer they’ve been coming in pairs with one person’s passing being overshadowed by a more famous counterpart.

Who else has famously lost out in celebrity death coverage over the years? We’ve put together a gallery.

In what may turn out to be the cruelest irony of the year, the death of Senator Edward Kennedy may have papered over a CNN video clip poised to change the dynamic of the national healthcare debate: footage of a desperate woman crying “We need help!” because she lost health insurance after her husband suffered a brain injury.

With news of the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy media outlets have been searching for phrases and narratives to put his death in the proper historic context. It’s true that sometimes no one’s really sure about how we feel about an event or news item — then Google Trends comes along and tells what people are most curious about. Or, there is a right-wing effort to gin the system via “Google Bombing

Bill O’Reilly knows how cruel internet comments can get based on the amount of coverage he’s devoted to followers of the liberal blog DailyKos upon the death of key conservatives. But will he be keeping a watchful eye on the conservative corners of the web today to assure everyone is respecting the death of Sen. Kennedy? It seems doubtful. Here’s a taste of the bile spilling anonymously online so far today amid the outpouring of respect and grief for the late senator.

With the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy this morning, a long procession of prepared obituaries in print and online. Given that Kennedy’s days have been numbered for over a year, any news outlet worth its salt had something in the drawer for when he passed. But Newsweek beat them all to the punch.

The death of any legendary public figure comes with cliches, but the life and career of Kennedy was far too complex to sum up in the inevitable and hackneyed phrases (regardless of how correct they may or may not be). But since the media has never been afraid of the obvious, following is a list of the expected phrases and narratives you can expect to read and hear in the coming days.

Senator Ted Kennedy died last night at his home in Hyannis Port, succumbing to the brain cancer he has been battling for over 15 months. The Liberal Lion, patriarch of America’s most famous political family, Kennedy has served in the Senate for five decades. He is also the only brother in his family to have died from natural causes. “An important chapter in our history has come to an end,” said President Obama in a statement. Here’s look at some of the coverage this morning including pictures and video. For a look at Twitterverse reactions go here.

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Policy isn’t sexy, so mainstream media outlets tend to package health care reform around personality and politics – and conflict, of course. Obama’s August deadline plays into this, adding an element of urgency to the mix. Combative comments like Jim DeMint declaring this potentially “Obama’s Waterloo” become the story. Well, if it is, the press could be seen as unwitting pawns to this battle.