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Originally Posted by MandoMan

I hear you. This isn’t a government plot. It’s a newscast plot. All of these TV news stations base their charge for advertising on how many people are watching. Most TV news stations, have taken to doing whatever they can to keep people watching. Decades ago, the weather report was boring. Now, the stations do whatever they can to keep people watching instead of changing the channel or going to the kitchen or something. The best way they have found is by presenting the weather report in an alarmist way and warning you throughout the news that you won’t want to miss this. Garbage. They are presenting the unlikely worst it could be as if people should worry about it. Thus the heat index. It’s so much more impressive than just the temperature because it’s so much higher. In the north, they also do it with the Wind Chill Factor. It looks so much scarier, so you keep watching through the next commercial to find out what horrible thing to expect. Alarmist! Remember that word. Don’t believe TV weather reports. I use Weather Underground online. It just takes a minute, and it’s in line with the national report combined with lots of local weather gathering stations. Try it. It’s very different from what you’ll see on TV, but more accurate. Imagine! You’ve been wasting maybe half an hour a day on TV weather! You don’t need to do that. TV weather also tries to keep people watching by using attractive weather women in sexy dresses and high heels. That’s for you, guys, and they lay look great, but the way they are being used is disgusting. Or they use weather men who crack jokes. Keep ‘em laughing. Yech! How often to you see serious, plain weather people these days? It isn’t common.

I don’t watch TV news or TV news/entertainment mixtures like Good Morning America at all (and I don’t get news from sites like Facebook, either). I thus save myself hours a day to use on other things—like writing this. I find much of the so-called news on TV to be alarmist and lacking in context. If there isn’t video available, it isn’t covered because it’s boring. Someone’s speech isn’t generally covered unless the person makes a gaffe or trips and falls. That’s when it becomes “newsworthy”. TV news is trying to make you a news junky—an addict. And the News level is aimed at the lowest common denominator of the audience. Do you want to be that dumb and gullible? Just say no!

I agree, EXCEPT----in a few hours POTUS will be in Arizona pushing his "climate change agenda" and all the "accomplishments he has made" so far. I think it goes beyond sensationalized weather reports. The additional advertising revenue a media outlet might gain from sensationalized reporting are just crumbs from the table of the real powers that stand to gain from spending trillions on this "agenda"