It is why I stopped watching and reading anything from the MSM about 20 years ago. They just want people to be emotionally stimulated and agitated. I don’t need that.
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Funny. Just listening to the radio this morning. You’d think the nor’easter coming in today was the end of the world. They actually had a live-action field reporter commenting about watching a sanding truck being loaded with salt. *That’s* the news?!! We now get to hear about a sanding truck being readied to do what sanding trucks do in the Winter. And the report was all delivered in a loud, panicked tone by the reporter.
All I could think when I heard it was, “aren’t you embarrassed to read such drivel as news”?
For a life long Midwesterner, the “Major Noreaster!” looks like “Crap, I need to beat the rush to buy more beer, milk and toilet paper”.
Granted, we have something the coast doesn’t, namely equipment and space to get rid of the snow.
I find it interesting you would have the same take on this that I do with regards to weather.
The breathless, under-the-surface, panic-evoking cadences, and stupid applying of names to even the most innocuous of weather incidences of all weather people now (be it the local news or the Weather Channel...particularly The Weather Channel) is irritating and nauseating to me.
I do make an exception for people who live in areas subject to hurricanes and tornadoes. That is quite different.
I think people who pay attention to this stuff are, well...I have to be nice. They talk to their viewers like mindless, emotionally driven children. It makes me think of the Don Henley (though he is a brain-dead leftist, gets this right) song “Dirty Laundry:
Dirty Laundry
Don Henley
I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry
Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond
Who comes on at five
She can tell you ‘bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry
You don’t really need to find out what’s going on
You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
We can do “The Innuendo”
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that Kraft is king
Give us dirty laundry!