Are we agreeing with her or not, Red Badger?
I agree with the sentiment but not a good way to keep your job :)
Totally on her side here.
He could have been a little more tactful.
Tact:
The ability to tell someone to go to Hell and make them feel glad to be on their way................
I did not see it, but it may be that a simple “tornado warning” became a “weather channel” type of time consuming nonsense. A tornado warning should take about 60 seconds.
The total amount of land area in which people were directly affected by the Ohio tornado swarm was on the order of one percent.
One person died as a result of the tornado event.
It would seem like weatherperson Jamie Simpson was upset that people were hearing her and seeing her, but not sharing her emotions and thought processes. Rather than just going with this, she chose to vent her frustration.
I wonder which political party better expresses her views?
Simpson has been a broadcast meteorologist in the Dayton market for 20+ years. Originally worked at WHIO-TV, CBS affiliate; left there about four years ago after a DUI arrest. Probably knows more about weather in the Miami Valley than anyone else in Dayton TV, and that’s why WKEF hired him when they had the chance.
I completely agree with Simpson’s comments. Ask any broadcast met and they will tell you the same thing; any time regular programming is interrupted, they receive nasty calls, e-mails, texts and even death threats from viewers. Believe me, no one wants to come in late in the evening on a holiday weekend to handle hours of severe weather coverage, but it does save lives.
The only suggestion I would offer local stations: to placate the viewers who want to keep watching “The Bachelorette” while the EF-3 sucks them through their roof, push the show onto your website, or a secondary channel, then re-run it the next day. That should placate the cranks, while everyone else can get information they need to stay safe.
One final thought: it is very true that TV is not the only source for severe weather updates. Plenty of info available on-line and even through devices like your home security system. But an experienced broadcast met can be a very good filter, to separate the wheat from the chaff. On the other hand, if you’ve got someone less skilled, you wind up with “info” like we get from our local CBS affiliate. They have one of those super-duper Doppler 10 Million Max radars that pinpoints areas of rotation. So, they always point out the spinning discs on their screen, without explaining that rotation in a storm does not equal a tornado.
Simpson had no reason to apologize. Same people would have complained if his station did not provide warnings, or just crawled them across the screen in favor of “The Bachelorette”
Don’t over think it. Just laugh st the assholes.
Given the destruction they had on the ground, he was right to be angry.
Jamie Simpson is a guy.
The weatherMAN is a guy, not a HER.