CNN's 24 Hour Coverage of a Hurricane
I have my TV set on CNN right now with the sound off while I study, but I'm coming to the conclusion that they're milking this hurricane in Florida WAY too much. Yes, there's another big hurricane coming to Florida. Yes, it's really big.

But do they REALLY need to have no less than three on air reporters in the street being blown across the screen with the storm coming down all around them to convince me that there's a bad storm going on in Florida? This so much reminds me of local news stories that show fires. A fire is really not a story; it's an opportunity to point a movie camera at the fire and show flames without actually having to do any work at getting an actual story during that time.

What happened to the Woodward and Bernsteins? Okay, they were newspaper guys, but still, at one time TV news used to be about actually going out and getting good stories. How come the one station (CBS) that used to be known for hard-hitting stories is now such a disgrace that we'll probably never see a hard-hitting story from them during the next decade? And no one else seems willing to pick up the slack. The news on television these days tends to camp out at the White House and take any morsel of fake information as a big news story because it's being spoonfed to them rather than requiring them to actually go and get the news themselves.

The only positive aspect of massive coverage of a non-story like this hurricane (which can easily be covered with a briefing the next day if it got really out of hand) is that we don't have to see 24 hours of Kobe Bryant or Scott Peterson.

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