For example:
Posted on 11/29/2016 10:01:34 AM PST by markomalley
Ravaged by months of drought, huge swaths of the southeast United States are on fire, but you wouldn’t know it judging by national media coverage.
A total of six states in the southeast (Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi) are currently suffering from “exceptional drought,” a category reserved for the most severe drought conditions, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center. The majority of land in four states (Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia) are facing “extreme drought,” the second most severe level.
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But because it’s not happening in New York or D.C. or Los Angeles, it doesn’t really count as news. When a few snowflakes begin to fall in Washington, it’s a national emergency. When Los Angeles has a lot of traffic on Thanksgiving, it requires an international APB. But when tens of thousands of acres are burning in the South following months of drought, it barely warrants a shrug.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
For example:
We finally got some nice rain last night (Georgia)! Hallelujah!
Wave a Confederate flag around. The media will come running!
The National Media has more important fish to fry...Getting Thunder Thighs into the White House with a vote recount!
Someone ought to ping the Tennessee Freepers to this story...
Data point in support of article: I didn’t know about this. And I’m a news junkie.
Ture that !
And then the media say they didn't see the Trump election.
It's because the coup happened in the "heartland", not in the E'ffin DenoRAT cities !!
A few weeks ago, I was standing in a line. The guy behind me was elucidating his oh so special, joe Hipster, snobbish hatred for the redneck have in Gatlinburg. He went on for a long time. It was nauseating.
If he’s even heard about it on NPR or Huffington Post, he’s probably being drawn out of his post election depression and cheering the fire.
On the other hand, although I’m not a huge Gatlinburg fan and deeply saddened that this unique piece of America has been destroyed, mostly as I’ve heard by systematic arson.
Jihad anyone?
Being treated like a stepchild is nothing new here. But hey, we are the bedrock foundation of Trump’s win so we are still smiling while those cruds whine and cry.
President Trump is heading out on a ‘Thank You’ tour later this week...perhaps a quick visit to the Gatlinburg area might be in order...
More on the way tonight! Praise GOD!!!
Tn like LA floods were just the south, and to the elitist media they couldn’t give a crap . 50 people protest in a northeastern city, or LA airport is backed up then it is news for these scumbags.
This is why I don’t tweet, facebook, etc. Dorks.
Yankees laugh at fires in the south. Just like the Muslims laugh at Israel’s fires.
These nasty progs keep it up, they’re going to learn the meaning of jihad. Most likely from their neighbors who are tired of their smug crap.
I don’t guess any of those Yankee faggots care to come on down and “tweet” those comments to our faces.
President Trump is heading out on a ‘Thank You’ tour later this week...perhaps a quick visit to the Gatlinburg area might be in order...
Me too. I didn’t read about it until I logged onto FR.
Has Albert ManBearPig Gore and his band of Climate Scientists claimed responsibility yet?
Even if the elites thought this was big story it wouldn’t last long — east TN is very RED, they’ll rebuild in no time without handouts from the government.
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