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Re: I gotta ask this about TV hurricane coverage. Hope it\'s not too
The media was just begging for this thing to hit New Orleans again so it can go hogwild.
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Re: I gotta ask this about TV hurricane coverage. Hope it\'s not too
One think I can tell you is it does not seem to correlate with increased accuracy of reporting. I sat in my house in Kingston Jamaica on Sunday and watched the Weather Channel on cable telling everyone that the island had lost power (it hadn't - the power company had started to take areas off-line in a phased, organised manner) and that Jamaica was about to be devastated by this Category 4 monster, when it was clear from the advisories that Dean had stayed South and barring very unlikely massive change of direction, that the eye was going to pass 50-100 miles South of the island. Given that the Hurricane force winds were only 60 miles out from the eye, and that the Cat 4 winds were probably only 15 miles out, it would have been appropriate to ratchet down that type of sensationalism.
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Re: I gotta ask this about TV hurricane coverage. Hope it\'s not too
And what's with Grape Nuts? It contains neither grapes nor nuts.
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Re: I gotta ask this about TV hurricane coverage. Hope it\'s not too
[ QUOTE ]
And what's with Grape Nuts? It contains neither grapes nor nuts. [/ QUOTE ] I'd say it's a good thing that the joke wasn't originally told like this. |
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