Re: more Wilma news

gekko wrote:
> Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the
> way before it is understood. "Random" <randomiez@xxxxxxxxx>, who
> posted in misc.writing on 23 Oct 2005 demonstrates this principle in
> this way:
>
>
> > I didn't say to *just* check the sky. Check the wire (or wireless)
> > reports, too. But a whole damned channel?
>
> They got weather radios. Why not weather tee-vee?

Why not neither?

> > Or a weather report
> > every ten minutes? Absurd.
>
> 'k, so they have, like, three bazillion All News, All The Time
> channels. Sure, people like their news. But isn't this 24/7 push
> for "gotta have something news-y to say" a little much?

Yes. It is.

> Never mind
> the repetition, but they have to go off and interview Uncle Bippo who
> sez that there's mass rapes goin' on in the NOLA convention center,
> and if Uncle Bippo says it, it's news, and since we have to have news
> 24/7 _and_ compete with the other 2.9999999... bazillion all news
> outlets.

'S half the reason I don't bother trying to get info out of the teevee,
or out of news-only radio. Filler & sensationalism.

I did try, earlier today. All Wilma, All the Time: watched the teevee
for 20 minutes of Wilma coverage, and though they took the time to give
us footage of a man with one hand on a cellphone, one hand carrying a
sandbag unhurriedly to a trough, and footage of another man playfully
kicking him in the bum, and later another man wandering into the scene
looking like he was trying to remember who he was, and though they took
the time to show us footage of other hurricanes, and made many mentions
of Andrew and Katrina, and they smiled so big and bright on those
$100,000.00 faces as they prophesied disaster for us all, they didn't
once show me a picture of where Wilma was.

Not once.

Could've had more useful information out of a toaster, for God's sake.

But! They interviewed Uncle Bippo all-right. A whole slew of 'em.

Yeah. You won't hear me arguing on behalf of most media.

--
-r
most.

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