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April 15, 2007
The flooding was so bad...
Ok, this weather completely sucks. Which brings to mind local news reporting, which is always at its finest during weather events. News crews all around the Northeast are scurrying tonight to their respective local babbling brook, borrowing big yellow raincoats from blue collar types and mucking around with locals to put together yet more hard-hitting reports on "my gosh look at the white caps in the Bronx River. Yes, Bob, looks like you'll need a canoe, yuck, yuck, and be careful out there..." It doesn't take a Columbia Journalism degree to know this stuff sells. It's gold, baby. It's gold.
As viewers, though, we must be ever vigilant lest the press make these rainstorms stories a bit sexier. The Today Show's foibles last fall come to mind:
Posted by bill at April 15, 2007 11:07 PM
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