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Why do weak-ass hurrricanes deserve non-stop coverage?
Allow me to vent my frustration at the corporate media.
I live in ohio. I don't care about a category 1 hurrican in texas and yet, its nonstop coverage of it all day on the cable channels.
I mean, it wouldn't be so bad if the storm actually warranted such coverage. But this isn't Katrina we're talking about here.
Dolly should probably be mentioned in the news because its happening. but it's not a national story that deserves 45 minutes of coverage every hour.
Its a storm. It's a weak one, at that. A little rain, a little wind, a little flooding. Hey, we get those conditions here in ohio too. they're called thunderstorms. ANd nobody does national coverage everytime it rains here.
Big hurricanes, Andrew, Katrina, etc...deserve non-stop coverage. But every hurricane to make land fall certainly doesn't.
Its this lack of distinction every single hurrican season that drives me nuts.
anyway...that's just reason number 1029231313 why i think the corporate media is completely messed up...
Comments (2)
My weather peeve concerns winter weather. Every winter storms march across the country from west to east and we stoically cope with whatever comes our way but when the storm that's been battering the US for a solid week finally approaches NY or DC it suddenly becomes BREAKING NEWS!!!
July 23, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Easy video is why. It costs almost nothing to cover. It is just the national example of the local stations priorities: If it bleeds it leads. You will see the same thing if a baby falls down a well. They will cover it around the clock for a week, but a million children can be starving to death in the midst of a famine, at the same time, and the one down the well gets all the coverage.
TV News is an oxymoron. Not matter how important a story is, if TV does not have video, then they rarely will mention it.
Watch the old movie: Broadcast News. It was true for it's time, and the business has become much more anchor centric, and less information driven since that movie was made.
July 23, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
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