Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Hurricane Coverage

Watching CNN, they stuck their morning anchor, Bill Hemmer in the middle of the hurricane. No doubt that the rest of the news channels are doing the same thing.

Do we really need a news person in the middle of the storm for us to believe how bad it is? I've always found this to be amusing. What is the reporter going to say? "Well, Sean, we've been out here in the middle of the storm, and it's really not that bad!" Or perhaps the other extreme, "Damn! It really IS raining here!!! I never thought the wind would be like this!"

Come on! Poor Dan Rather was out in the middle of one of the other hurricanes this year. He's 73! He's interviewed Saddam Hussein! Now he's stuck in a wind and rain storm? At this point shouldn't he be able to just do the cushy stuff?

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