I wonder if someone will point out to the Dinosaur Media THEIR role in this disaster. I bet a lot of people just tuned out the broad casted warnings. Bet they thought "OH that News Media is always hyping things up. Everything is either a terrorists attack or the worse disaster ever. I will just ignore them this time too". If the Dinosaur Media did it's job and simply REPORTED the facts instead of hyping and sexing up "the news" people MAY start taking it seriously again. However, when you watch a story from the inside and see how much is ignored, misreported or spun, you begin to realize there really is very little difference between Talk Radio and the Dinosaur Media. The only major difference is you KNOW what the bias is from Talk Radio where the Dinosaur Media still insists on lying about theirs.
Excellent point, the media is guilty of over kill and the people tune them out and go do their own thing. I can remember Channel 7, the Fox affiliate in Miami would start to hype for Hurricanes as soon as they were 1 mile off the African coast. That was really overkill. If there was a survey that showed that The MSM was causing early death of Democrat voters because of the overhype and negativity, it would stop, but I do not believe that kind of survey is possible.