So, I’m watching CNN to check the status of Hurricaine Floyd. What’s up with the news idiots? They are outside in gale force winds, you can’t even understand them because of the rain. I just watched one woman who couldn’t even keep her footing while she was screaming into the microphone- she actually staggered back about 12 steps, still yelling. Do we need this kind of coverage? I just can’t get over how stupid that is. Totally dangerous and unnecessary.
Run for the hills, folks! Or you’ll be up to your armpits in martians!
I’m with you, Zette. I just watched the third instance of some brainless twit standing strapped in a university wind tunnel while it’s run up to about 125 mph so as to ‘demonstrate the devastating force of Floyd!’ – and the moronic level of news management in this country.
Of course, we do live in a society that enjoys shows like “When Animals Attack”…You’re right- anything for ratings. I find it insulting and childish. Totally unnecesary…
Run for the hills, folks! Or you’ll be up to your armpits in martians!
My husband is watching the news. I had just started reading this thread, when I hear him say “What in the hell are they doing out there? Why don’t they go inside? There’s a hurricane on!” Weird.
I really, really hope those newspeople are getting A LOT of extra pay for this…
. . . and by providing on-the-spot pictures of what was going on, they accomplished their purpose: They got you to watch their channel for some period of time.
pldennison- not at all true- I am not watching this because I can’t believe they have idiots out there or because I find that entertaining or informative. I’m watching because I have family I’m concerned about,and the majority of the time they are showing the people in the newsroom.
Run for the hills, folks! Or you’ll be up to your armpits in martians!
Oh, come on! How else are producers going to punish the reporters who piss them off?
“Jim, I want you to go to Cape Canaveral and see if the shuttle building tips over. Bring a raincoat and an asbestos suit in case one of the commercial rockets explodes. And while you’re there, I want you to think about whether you’re ever going to miss a deadline on me again.”
Uh…they’re out there because idiots like me watch them, hoping that the freak tsunami or washed-up manta ray will hit them and carry them out to sea. Live, and in color!!!
Bluepony,
Proud member of the Lowest Common Denominator :)
Blame it all on Dan Rather. The hurricane beat was his big break.
Back in his young days (about 1960-61) a hurricane was blowing through the Gulf coast. Rather, at the time an eager young reporter for a Houston TV station, went outside and reported live from the height of the storm. CBS executives, impressed by his courage in facing parts of buildings that were flying past him, hired him.
Now every dumb young reporter figures if they don’t die, they’ll get to be a network anchor.
I just watch this girl trying do a report in the middle of it get kicked back by the storm then I switched over to another station and saw another live report with a guy standing there and seeing the same girl walk into his shot before they zoomed in.
They had to stay out in the huricane so they didn’t miss their ride. The alien mother ship is leaving the Burmuda Triangle and coming to take them to to paridise.
I used to live near the ocean, and you always see on tv, a airhead reporter interviewing a citizen of seabright nj, saying something like “why are you here in the middle of this ferocious storm?” I would pay good money to see the resident say “I live here, why the fuck are you here?” I suspect that a lot of carful editing prevents this.
