I think hurricanes have a pr/media exposure advantage, since you can literally see them coming for miles away. The news outlets had about a week to work themselves into a lather over Irene while she churned away, approaching the coast. I can't speak to the coverage of Joplin, but tornadoes happen so suddenly that nobody has a chance to start the pre-storm media hype machine.
Tornadoes ought to consider press releases, if they want to have equal air time on the networks... ;) -c On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > It was certainly a major storm. But it was the object of round-the-clock > television coverage, and billions of tax dollars were spent preparing for it. > It received far more press than the devastating tornadoes that literally > leveled Joplin, Missouri. Perhaps not much ado about nothing, but certainly > much ado about very little. It could only happen on the east coast. > > Paul > > > On Aug 28, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Ann Sanfedele wrote: >> >>> I think your daughter's youth probably helped to minimize what was going >>> on -- but also, it _was_ rather irregular in impact and in the next few >>> days more flooding is expected. It was pretty windy out today and on >>> Long Island ( i.e., those powered by the Long Island power company) the >>> news just said there were over 400,000 people without power! >>> >>> The stories keep coming in -- the Saw MIll parkway is a river in >>> sections .. more buildings are falling down along the shore -- etc... >>> Yet I only know this because I see it live on TV - >> >> I believe Annsan. We only had winds up to 65 mph here and I can't >> imagine they weren't stronger in NYC. Lisa went out for a walk around >> Jamaica Pond late this afternoon when things had calmed down a bit and >> reported uprooted trees and downed limbs blocking paths everywhere. >> Fortunately all the advance hype paid off and there were already crews >> out cleaning up. >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
