Hurricane whores, they all look alike.
Sometimes it's hard to get the media to take a look at itself. The current worstest-ever hurricane season prompted Newsweek to take a look at "hurricane whores."
This is news for show, not for information. News, and especially TV news, has long been going the way of infotainment, and hurricane coverage has become a way to sex-up the broadcast with Hollywood-like special effects.Of course, this is print criticizing TV news, but you take what you can get. In my blog, I post things that agree with me.
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3 comments:
I mainly watch the Weather Channel, and even there the hurricane reporting has gotten to be a cliche. Jim Cantore always looks grim, shaking his head slightly while waiting for the anchor to hand off to him. There are always palm trees whipping in the wind. Roof panels or other junk always come flying off and nearly cut the "storm tracker" in two (or so you would think).
And while they all bemoaned the severity of this hurricane season as we edged toward the end of the alphabet-according-to-the-weather, you couldn't help seeing their excitement and anticipation grow. They would have, I'm quite sure, been quite disappointed if things had petered out after, say, Vince. I think everyone on TWC was ecstatic when the Greek alphabet barrier was broken for the first time. They just couldn't hide it.
eqqmip
The most amusing thing is how they go to these places while bemoaning the fact that people haven't evacuated.
Global warming means high times at The Weather Channel. All of the money will be in pharmaceuticals and meteorology in the next few decades.
eolapu
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