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Originally Posted by billethkid
on national news. Being from Erie, PA, I find it particularly amusing how what we used to have as a NORMAL winter, in this day of entertaining sensationalism news reading, is a lead story of national interest.
Cities, schools, airports, shopping centers, etc. have been closing for years when there is the occasional whopper storm. A 6' snow storm hardly made the news back in the early 50's.....of course we were blessed as there was no such thing as the 24/7 scare media back then. When it snowed 6-12 inches we didn't hear that it was "dangerous".
Just another example of how the media will fluff up a subject to retain viewers.
Musta been a slow news day in addition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder what the folks in the Dakotas and upper Canada think about such hype.
btk
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BTK you are absolutely right. Here in downstate NY (Orange county) most of our news comes from NYC. The last couple of days we have been blasted with nonstop b.s. about the coming storm. UP TO A FOOT OF SNOW!!!
Ho hum, if you can't deal with a foot of snow in the Northeast U.S., you have a major problem.
People and businesses react to the media blitz to the point that businesses and schools were actually cancelling yesterday, before it even started snowing.
In years past, before the media took over the air waves to the extent that they do today, if we had a truly heavy snow, 2-3 ft. some businesses shut down but never because snow was predicted. If someone called in at work to say the wouldn't be in because it was supposed to snow they would have been laughed at....or worse.
As you say, it's a slow news day. Michael Jackson left us months ago, Tiger hasn't done anything especially newsworthy in awhile. I guess they have to talk about something. Too bad we react to such hype.