...blizzard’s and tropical storms...
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A few days ago, I watched a Weather Channel clip about expected storms across the Upper Midwest. The young presenter was forcefully telling the audience they _must_ put warning apps on their phones, especially if they were camping in isolated areas because “winds this strong could flip your camper”. Scolding them over and over in a short 2-minute clip.
I bet she has never camped, never been out in the wilderness or even a small rural town. But she was sure trying to sound like an expert to scare folks.
Hint: we watch the skies. Cell phone reception is uneven and sometimes non-existent in the boonies. It can be dangerous, but people are situationally aware and there is usually adequate time to temporarily leave the isolated area.
I was struck by the way she barely controlled her hysteria and anger, as though campers are 5-year-olds.
I was struck by the way she barely controlled her hysteria and anger,
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The NEW NORM...
The ‘news reader’ also editorializes the ‘news’ discussing it with the other ‘accompanying idiots’.
Like the ‘newspaper’ USA Today is ‘hard to take’ when you grew up with 5 minutes news ‘flashes’ at the top of the hour and maybe on the half hour, local news may have gotten 10 mins twice a day and you relied on the UNBIASED reporting of the newspaper to get the ‘meat of it’.
Cable new and ‘news hours’ hastened the downfall and since they (sort of) went in depth, the newpaper became ‘old newz’ which then prompted ALL the media types to rush to be first VERY OFTEN having an incomplete or distorted report of the ‘breaking news’.
Then it got to
at 730 ‘break’ a promo comes on “Downtown fire kills 30 etc” details and film at 11 and that is/was the last you may have heard of it.
I gave up on TV news when they started telling you on Sunday what the Wednesday ‘NEWS’ broadcast would be about.
Today ‘they’ read the headline, never go below the fold and the papers can say what they want at the outset and put out the REAL facts at the end and get to skate because they did ‘correct’ the disinformation that was being spread but a good portion of the people never turned the page (Short ‘attention span?)