Making News, Out of Nothing At All
I thought the Air Supply song would make a good spring board for my next rant on our thoughtful media presentations. Yahoo has a front page headline that says, “Forecasts: Northeast Due for Big Hurricane.” The article goes on to say that because the Atlantic Ocean is warmer and the Pacific is cooler, that it is the perfect time for a big Northeast hurricane. Of course they show a picture of the devastation caused by the last big northeast hurricane in 1938.
Now if I am not mistaken, hurricane season is at least three months away. Our local weatherman is rarely correct about tomorrow’s weather. He’s usually incorrect about yesterday’s weather for that matter. Now we have Ken Reeves from AccuWeather Center in State College, Pa quoted as predicting a category 3 hurricane in New England this season. I would love to see how accurate he has been for the last month. I’m surprised that Punxsutawney Phil hasn’t chimed in on the monsoon season or commented on the effects of seeing his shadow on global warming.
The media just has to make news if nothing is happening. It is what ever gets someone’s attention and pays the bills. There is such media saturation that unless there is some kind of new twist, it falls on deaf ears. About the only way things are even heard anymore is through the constant pounding by several different mediums. That is how the environ ”mentals” have managed to get the myth of man’s mismanagement causing global warming beyond the tents they are camping in. The arrogance that our contribution to global change is that significant tells me they think man has more power than a volcano or earthquake. We do a great job of predicting one and stopping the other. Yea right!
Now once they have you reading their article, they go through the doom and gloom of what could happen compared to what has happened in the past. It is a great way to fire up people to expect the worst and provides a way to campaign for more restrictive policies on greenhouse gases. I’ll rant about those another day. So we get to the last line of the article. Another weatherman gives you his perspective on the whole article by saying, “The chances of one happening this year is no greater than it was last year.” Why didn’t they put that first and then not bother to write such garbage. I guess everyone needs a job. Maybe I should have misquoted another Air Supply Song, “I’m All Out of News.”
Icool
Cobb
Now if I am not mistaken, hurricane season is at least three months away. Our local weatherman is rarely correct about tomorrow’s weather. He’s usually incorrect about yesterday’s weather for that matter. Now we have Ken Reeves from AccuWeather Center in State College, Pa quoted as predicting a category 3 hurricane in New England this season. I would love to see how accurate he has been for the last month. I’m surprised that Punxsutawney Phil hasn’t chimed in on the monsoon season or commented on the effects of seeing his shadow on global warming.
The media just has to make news if nothing is happening. It is what ever gets someone’s attention and pays the bills. There is such media saturation that unless there is some kind of new twist, it falls on deaf ears. About the only way things are even heard anymore is through the constant pounding by several different mediums. That is how the environ ”mentals” have managed to get the myth of man’s mismanagement causing global warming beyond the tents they are camping in. The arrogance that our contribution to global change is that significant tells me they think man has more power than a volcano or earthquake. We do a great job of predicting one and stopping the other. Yea right!
Now once they have you reading their article, they go through the doom and gloom of what could happen compared to what has happened in the past. It is a great way to fire up people to expect the worst and provides a way to campaign for more restrictive policies on greenhouse gases. I’ll rant about those another day. So we get to the last line of the article. Another weatherman gives you his perspective on the whole article by saying, “The chances of one happening this year is no greater than it was last year.” Why didn’t they put that first and then not bother to write such garbage. I guess everyone needs a job. Maybe I should have misquoted another Air Supply Song, “I’m All Out of News.”
Icool
Cobb
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