Over dramatization of weather conditions?
I must be more critical than most about certain things.
Take the weather for example. The kinds of winter weather we see currently being covered in the national news in the evening. Many evenings this week the weather was the lead story on some news networks.
They are reporting on weather that is/was/has been nothing but good old fashioned winter weather like it was when I was a youngster. BAck in Erie if we got a 6 inch snow fall we found out about it when we looked out the window in the morning. And it would be a RARE day indeed for school to ever be cancelled.
Today we have too many media outlets, with far too many personnel who have very little to do. Hence the weather is the closest target (unless assigned to Ferguson!). No matter how much snow they report....we had the same thing.
Showing cars sliding around and tractor trailers in a ditch was what happened EVERYTIME a major snow storm arrived.
The reporting and dramatization of the current weather conditions (no matter the season) amounts to the reporting making a banquet out of a ham sandwich.
Setting aside real legitimate emergency situations.....most of us have been there and done it. What we did not have was the 24/7 coverage by those inspired by obtaining their moment in front of the lens.....when there are more real life threatening or life improving stories out and about.
When the weather leads the national news I always figure it is a slow news day or the networks are attempting to ignore the real stories that matter but don't match the current agenda or talking script for the day.
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