Paul there is something you are missing here... While I agree that
_post_disaster/event or what have you no matter what it is can suffer
from overkill in the media - Here the media was instrumental in
Bloomberg's success in getting people to comply with the program for
keeping people safe - getting the word out BEFORE in the media..
Right now Irene is causing major, major flooding all over New England...
much ado about very little? much ado about less than it might have been
but this was a long way from "very little"
and here is the thing - there are still things that have to be done and
cautions to be taken - there is still big weather here (meaning the
north east)
Joplin was a shocker and certainly beyond in devastation - but the
coverage I watched certainly didnt' neglect Joplin - it's apples and
oranges. There is a diffference between covering a tragedy of great
magnitude of which there have been several in the last year or so,
Santiago, Japan, New Zealand , Haiti in addition to Joplin and Katrina.
This story all up and down the coast was as much about people doing
something preemtively to protect people and it worked. It is also
rather important now for us to know where there are problems to keep
from going there..
There was coverage in our area for hours and hours without breaks for
commercials! It was the media acting responsibly - I forgive them some
redundancy
ann
On 8/28/2011 21:38, Paul Stenquist 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.
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