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Ok, I get it that the networks are going to cover every hurricane. What I don't get is that while everybody else is being told to run away the networks send a reporter to stand outside in the hurricane and tell the world that it's windy and raining. What's up w/ that? Also, I've noticed that CNN at least has sent 3 reporters of their own to Jamaica, the Caymans and the Yucatan. What the heck is up w/ that? Can't they get some local schlub to stand out in the wind and rain to say that it's windy and rainy? Is it a punishment to be sent to cover wind and rain? How is it worth it to buy plane tickets for a reporter when you can get a 'local'?
Lastly, if you were a CNN reporter would you want to go out into a category 5 hurricane (w/ reported winds of 195 mph at one point) and risk your life? Not me, that's for sure. And before somebody says they send them to the edge of the thing where it's safer nobody can really tell which way these things are going to turn. |
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Im not sure about the news reporters but im sure the meteorologists love this sort of thing. Id sure as hell want this assignment.
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I got a cousin who chases tornadoes as a hobby. He pays a lot of money to do it.
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I got a cousin who chases tornadoes as a hobby. He pays a lot of money to do it. [/ QUOTE ] I'm guessing he needs some really fancy off-road truck. What else does he have to pay for? |
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Howard, the reporter isn't just there to stand in the wind and rain for the 5-second live shot -- they also get what's called "a story," whereby the reporter looks around the area, talks to locals, gathers information, and forms an entire piece that is either filmed there or pieced together later.
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Howard, the reporter isn't just there to stand in the wind and rain for the 5-second live shot -- they also get what's called "a story," whereby the reporter looks around the area, talks to locals, gathers information, and forms an entire piece that is either filmed there or pieced together later. [/ QUOTE ] Oh, I know that. And it's the same story every time. Knocked down trees, roofs blown off, hopefully only a few people killed and injured, people staying in the school building, emergency aid and all of that. But there are certainly Jamaican and Mexican news reporters who can do it for them and they know the people and the area better. And besides, OOT is not the place for common sensical, reasonable answers is it? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] |
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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.
But then, people might have switched to watching golf or something. |
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And what's with Grape Nuts? It contains neither grapes nor nuts.
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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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