New flash for the
fucking retarded television reporters:
The current season in the Northern Hemisphere is called "Winter". In the US, it tends to snow in a lot of places in Winter. Sometimes it snows a whole lot. Sometimes it doesn't.
This is news, apparently, to those
morons journalists who have to stand in front of a camera. Watching white precipitation is endlessly fascinating to those people, because otherwise, they might have to report on subjects such as politics or foreign affairs or the economy or infrastructure. And if they were to report on those issues, they might have to take some time to learn something so that they don't run the risk of appearing to be imbecilic on a newscast, for who among them wants to be the subject of a viral video on YouTube?
That is why you are seeing legions of miked-up fools on TV standing out in the snow and talking about how heavy it is or how hard it is coming down or how deep the snow is. It's an easy story, at least intellectually, to cover.
Hell, you should see them when it rains in the Pacific Northwest
ReplyDeleteThe sheep are content to do with less. Mediocre is just fine.
ReplyDeleteAfter the last 'rain storm' here in PHX, folks were wondering if the drought was over - and the question was presented as 'news'. The news folks were not informing the public that one piddly bit of rain does not wipe out a multiple-years long drought. No, they were leading the speculation that this could be the beginning of the end of the drought. These folks are on the tube to speculate, entertain, and regurgitate talking points -- not inform.
ReplyDelete"Heavy," "hard" and "deep" is generally what the media and the gov give us. I don't need someone to TELL me about it.
ReplyDeleteHere near Charlottesville, Va., it snowed for 35 hours without stopping. I guess you had to be here for it to matter. Or maybe your power had to go out in nighttime temperatures of 10 degrees in order for it to get your jaundiced attention.
ReplyDeleteAny rate, compassion for your fellow citizens might seep between the cracks of your swollen glibial lips if you let it. That the self-aware, self-serving mainstream media does wal-to-wall coverage is moot; they'll do what they have to do to enable making career bones and getting the "gets." But don't tell me this wasn't news. Especially if you were there. If you weren't, you don't know what it's like to live through it. Meanwhile, six to twelve inches predicted for tomorrow night. Yee-haa, go Climate!
Saw, that's a local story. It is not a national one.
ReplyDeleteRules #1 and #2 apply. Summary: Play nice.
Jersey Shore to Georgia is a local story? Such silliness you purvey, tsk, tsk. Glib is as glib does. Instead, continue prattling about things you can do nothing about, like the greedy bankers, if it makes you feel better. Heaven help you if you get stuck in a "local story" and nobody gives a rip. I think you get my meaning. Your pith needs leavening with humanity.
ReplyDeleteSaw, if you keep questioning my humanity, then you're comments are going to get scrubbed.
ReplyDeleteFinal warning.
It snows 30" here every so often and sometimes for 30 days straight and life goes on.
ReplyDeleteYea-it snows sometimes and it just isn't deserving of 24-7 dumb ass news nuttery.
What is news is how people acted . You people would kill for a gallon of 2% at the drop of a hat. What will you do if shit really hits the fan. That's the story that needs to be told.