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To: gracesdad
A bust? You obviously have no idea in the world what you’re talking about.

How about a deal? I will agree with your point if you agree not to be insulting.

I understand that it was a powerful storm with lots of energy. But I don't care about the energy of the storm. I really don't. I understand that it was a powerful system. Fine. Whatever.

What I care about is people and property and damage. By those standards, the storm was not that big a deal. The predictions of death and destruction were, thankfully, not realized. The story should be that, fortunately, things are not that bad.

My point was that newscasters have a hard time giving good news, so they talk about downed trees in Mexico, as if anybody should care.

139 posted on 08/21/2007 7:11:18 PM PDT by gridlock (You’ll never grow old with Hillary-Care!)
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To: gridlock

Sorry if I was insulting.

I’m not running around looking at all of the MSM, but CNN is reporting that the Yucatan “dodged a bullet” and that loss of life could have been much worse. It does indeed mention downed power lines and trees, but so what? Standard part of a storm story and usually one of the first things you can determine. Reporters early on are desperate to report “something” because today’s media audience expects IMMEDIATE info, even when that’s not possible.

CNN also reports the positive that ancient ruins did fine and that folks in various areas were relieved it wasn’t worse.

I just don’t see the slant you seem to find.


143 posted on 08/21/2007 7:26:33 PM PDT by gracesdad
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