Crappy Maps

Anyone else notice how bad the maps of the Katrina area are on TV? I'm looking at one now on CNN showing Baton Rouge. It has green land and blue water and a blinking red dot labeled Baton Rouge, LA. Nothing else. They don't show where New Orleans is for reference. They don't color the areas affected by the storm (what kind of damage did Baton Rouge have?). There's no scale. In fact I haven't seen a scale on any map and was amazed at today's Boston Globe which showed the same flooded area around New Orleans I've seen for days, but superimposed on a Boston map and showed it stretching out to Framingham (that's about 25 miles west from the water). It did have a scale on it but the online version doesn't! We can do amazing things with digital images and flashy graphics, I just people would make them useful as well.