Is Google Trying to Rewrite History?

Hurricane Katrina was a horrible desastor for everyone who was affected by it. It happened over a year ago, but now there is still increasing controversy in reactions to the devastation left behind by the storm. Everyone knows the popular search engine Google, but there is also Google Earth, which provides maps and satellite imagery from any location around the world. CNN is reporting though that Google Inc., which runs Google Earth, is now currently under fire because a US House Subcommittee is accusing Google of "airbrushing history". The satellite images Google puts up are supposed to be up to date images of that region of the earth, but Google replaced the images of devastation in New Orleans with satellite imagery that was pre -Hurricane Katrina. Democratic rep. Brad Miller says that "Google's use of old imagery appears to be doing victims of Hurricane Katrina a great injustice by airbrushing history." In response to all of the scrutiny, Google has changed some of the satellite imagery of New Orleans back to post Katrina, but it is still somewhat outdated.

Google is a very popular medium that many people use as a means of attaining reliable information. Can something as little as a satellite image lessen how they are percieved? I personally think that if what they are advertising is that you can see up to date images of places around the Earth, then thats what the public should be able to see, destruction or not. The people of New Orleans have a right to be upset that the fact that they are still in a current state of ruins, was being ignored by a major media outlet.