Opinion disguised as news

You tell me if this is “news” or “opinion” from the AP’s Jennifer Loven:

(AP) New Orleans Not Part of Bush’s Speech
New Orleans is still a mess and the pace of recovery across the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina’s strike remains achingly slow after 17 months. But none of this captured President Bush’s attention on the year’s biggest night for showcasing policy priorities.

In the president’s State of the Union speech last year, delivered just five months after the disaster, the devastation merited only 156 words out of more than 5,400.

On Tuesday night, the president spoke for almost exactly as long before a joint session of Congress. But Katrina received not a single mention. . . .
. . . Seeking to recover from criticism of his initial reaction to the storm, the president focused intensively on the Gulf Coast in the weeks and months after Katrina hit. But that attention level quickly dropped off, and he hardly mentions the region now. His only visit there in the last eight months was to mark one year since the storm’s strike in August.

Not filed under opinion, huh?