[Colonel Kangaroo]

It hit the home turf of much of the national media and so it agitated their gut emotions in a way that tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri and Ringgold, Georgia can't.

In a similar vein, Democratic Underground seemed to be more concerned with a water line breaking in Massachusetts than the West and Middle Tennessee floods occurring at the same time.

[Cinnamontea]

It hit the home turf of much of the national media and so it agitated their gut emotions in a way that tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri and Ringgold, Georgia can't.

BINGO! Forget that hundreds of people died in the tornados this spring. They didn't touch the hallowed Northeast, so they didn't count.

If I owned a news outfit like Fox, the first thing I'd do (after firing Shep Smith) would be to move headquarters the heck out of New York City. I'd leave a bureau in Washington because the government is based there, but I'd have bureaus spread all over--Houston, Chicago, Denver, Albuquerque. But until an owner has the nerve to do something like that, U.S. news outlets will continue to think that an event descreases in importance the farther from New York it occurs.

[Inyo-Mono]

It hit the home turf of much of the national media and so it agitated their gut emotions in a way that tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri and Ringgold, Georgia can't.

Exactlly. Here in my little part of the rural West we had a 6.3 earthquake a few years back with barely a mention on the news; 100 winds that toppled trees and took roofs off of homes and businesses - dead silence; and a flash flood last year that knocked cars and simi trucks off the road closing the main highway with four feet of mud for four days. I listened in vain to hear anything about it on ABC Radio News.