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Originally Posted by Villager Joyce

A question for all the people Who can't understand the hype, how accurate were the forecasts in your "back home"? Did your newscasters hype Sandy? Let's talk snow storms? Exaggerated? Ignored?

I was in CT when Sandy hit and the newscasters were predicating a very powerful storm. They were accurate in that case. They also had predicted three feet of snow in one snowfall and they were right again. I good time to move to TV.

I think the media tends to present the worst case scenario and then everyone hopes they are wrong. The media is all about ratings. IMHO Just ask the people who have been fired for not producing good enough ratings.

My finance analysts told me the stock market downturn was somewhat induced by the media scare of the China situation and the people who control large volume of shares, and sell them off periodically, to scare the little investors. Was he right?

Time will tell. Stay tuned...........