[GOPrincess]

"The CA fires are breaking news - whether or not one has family or friends there (I have both)

As a former radio reporter and knowing the importance of broadcast news because of it's immediacy, I am speechless over the lack of coverage."


I'm wondering what the point is of all-news channels if they don't want to carry the news...

I heard a stat on the radio today that the largest fire in San Diego is the size of the city of Chicago...the fires altogether that time were half the size of Rhode Island, and I'm sure it's grown by then. Yet instead of live coverage we get warmed-over stories on the cable news channels. At least Chs. 9 and 11 have improved their coverage now that it's no longer the Saturday night news wasteland :).

[Gabz]

I heard a stat on the radio today that the largest fire in San Diego is the size of the city of Chicago...

Which is probably larger than the entire peninsula where I live ;-)

Yet instead of live coverage we get warmed-over stories on the cable news channels.

It's appalling. This is exactly what all news networks were supposedly created for.

I realize some of us here on the east coast jokingly say we would like to see California disappear into the Pacific - but I would like some network coverage of it happening. (end of bad humor attempt)