Well, the the media's hot news focus of the day has shifted -- only slightly -- from rehashes about tropical storm Irene to "We were right to provide moment-to-moment coverage on the storm and NOTHING ELSE for three days."
I mean, yeah, providing serious warnings about impending danger is a worthwhile and even admirable thing. Standing on an abandoned beach for 14 hours in a chartreuse windbreaker -- and this a day before the storm arrived -- and delivering informative and insightful reports like "Nope, nothin' yet, but the wind seems to be picking up" -- is just a teense over the top. Just a little too eager for a potential misfortune.
And I'd like to separate the actual residents of the East Coast from the news people. The residents behaved very well, very wisely for the most part. Even those young men on the Jersey Shore who planned to stick it out because, "We paid for the house for a week and we're staying a week."
Apparently even people from other countries are up to their eyeballs in tropical storm Irene stories and hoping for even a whiff of anything else leaking out from the East Coast-based US news conglomerates.
Someone suggested to a newscaster that Japan's 7+ quake and tsunami were much worse.
Thanks for ponting that out. Actually, I think Japan should get 21st Century Award for Enduring a Mind-Boggling Disaster Without Whining About It Like a Bunch of Babies.
As a matter of fact, I'm giving Japan that award right now.
By contrast, guess where the US news media ranks on that one?
Save the Republic.
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