Saturday, August 27, 2005
Trying to Reason With TV Hurricane Season
Boca Beacon Editor Gary Dutery says, "The networks have decided that hurricanes are the ultimate in reality television." Below is an excerpt of his article about coverage of the coverage of hurricanes:
"In past years, the cable news operations would send out one or two people who would invariably wind up in the wrong place.
During Hurricane Charley, for instance, the Weather Channel, CNN and MSNBC were waiting for the storm in Tampa. They're still waiting. Fox had Geraldo Rivera standing next to a plastic palm and a big fan in a studio in New York while Bill O'Reilly sprayed him down with a cheap garden hose.
It got so bad, people would begin removing their storm shutters and fetch the patio furniture from the pool the moment the Weather Channel guy drove into town.
Tired of looking ridiculous, the networks are now scattering dozens of human sacrifices into the projected paths of these storms in the hope that at least one of them will be in exactly the right place to be maimed or dismembered by a flying Days Inn sign.
Hurricane TV has become so popular, in fact, that MTV has announced plans for a new series entitled "Pimp My 'Cane." Actually, I just made that up.
But hey? Just take 18 of the dumbest humans on the planet and put them in a trailer directly in the path of a category five. The winner would be the first person to actually notice that "like, it's like windy or something."
And, of course, they could also be forced to eat bugs."
Read the full article HERE.
"In past years, the cable news operations would send out one or two people who would invariably wind up in the wrong place.
During Hurricane Charley, for instance, the Weather Channel, CNN and MSNBC were waiting for the storm in Tampa. They're still waiting. Fox had Geraldo Rivera standing next to a plastic palm and a big fan in a studio in New York while Bill O'Reilly sprayed him down with a cheap garden hose.
It got so bad, people would begin removing their storm shutters and fetch the patio furniture from the pool the moment the Weather Channel guy drove into town.
Tired of looking ridiculous, the networks are now scattering dozens of human sacrifices into the projected paths of these storms in the hope that at least one of them will be in exactly the right place to be maimed or dismembered by a flying Days Inn sign.
Hurricane TV has become so popular, in fact, that MTV has announced plans for a new series entitled "Pimp My 'Cane." Actually, I just made that up.
But hey? Just take 18 of the dumbest humans on the planet and put them in a trailer directly in the path of a category five. The winner would be the first person to actually notice that "like, it's like windy or something."
And, of course, they could also be forced to eat bugs."
Read the full article HERE.
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