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News agencies heading for embarrasment again after Hurricane hype?

  • 01-09-2008 1:23pm
    #1
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭


    'Hurricane' Gustav is now a mere Category 2 storm 5 hours before it hits the Gulf Coast. The news reporting of this 'event' has been actually comical at times to the point of being embarrasing and an insult to intelligence. I suppose thats just the tabloid culture that has infected virtually every news channel/program on TV at this stage. Sky News is definately the worst - im watching it now and they sound disappointed that it will only be a Category 2 storm! (not the Category 5 histeria of little more then 24 hours ago) - I can see why they might be 'disappointed' - they have spent so much time hyping this up over the last two days. BBC news is not quite as bad but its still sensationalist. No respite from RTE either or CNN.


    They are now reduced to hyping up the rain!:rolleyes:

    Those anyone else think tv news has gone too tabloid?Kind of a race to the bottom?


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  • #2
    suckslikeafox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭suckslikeafox


    Absolutely but they must have been pretty sure of the threat this time, they evacuated a few cities didn't they?


  • #3
    Silenceisbliss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Silenceisbliss


    wow, a thread about; wind, rain, and news....

    im nursing a semi here....


  • #4
    SuperGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭SuperGrover


    darkman2 wrote: »
    Sky News is definately the worst - im watching it now

    Maybe don't watch it?


  • #5
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Sky News have been the Ethics Limbo champions for years now. How low can they go? One particular highlight for me was the countdown clock to the last Michael Jackson verdict. "He's getting in the car now. They're heading up the interstate. They've hit a red light. REPEAT A RED LIGHT! Traffic's moving reasonably well." Sensationalist bull****.

    As for Hurrican Gustav coverage on RTE and other more reputable stations, I don't think it's been too bad. It did look like it was going to be very serious for a while. It would have been one of the biggest news stories of the year and the reactions of the two presidential candidates might have been make or break for their respective campaigns. They could hardly ignore it until it hit land in the States could they? And don't forget it took about 93 lives already.

    The USA isn't the be all and end all.


  • #6
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    A category 5 storm hitting New Orleans again would be very big news. Did you manage to not understand the disaster that Katrina was?

    Yes, its been downgraded. But they were quite entitled to make a big deal of it when it was looking worse.


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  • #7
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    Calling it wrong by overplaying the danger is a huge problem for the authorities in the US.

    The problem is that if the hurricane turns out to be quite timid and does little damage after the evacuation then the next time a big storm comes along nobody will evacuate.

    Thousands of dead poor people, the shame.


  • #8
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    What's the big f***ing deal?
    It's just a Gustav wind FFS.


  • #9
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,375 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Zillah wrote: »
    A category 5 storm hitting New Orleans again would be very big news. Did you manage to not understand the disaster that Katrina was?

    Yes, its been downgraded. But they were quite entitled to make a big deal of it when it was looking worse.

    again :confused: katrina was a 3 when it reached landfall and it actually missed new orleans, it was the broken levies that caused 90% of the damage in new orleans, and it didn't need hurricane force winds to render those useless


  • #10
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,528 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Hanna will probably be steaming in after Gustav. Wimmins hurricanes are the worse if you ask me.


  • #11
    Dragan
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    Yeah, they should have waited until it was just about to hit....you know, just to be sure people would die and stuff.


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  • #12
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Dragan wrote: »
    Yeah, they should have waited until it was just about to hit....you know, just to be sure people would die and stuff.

    Didnt it cause some serious damage in Jamaica and some other islands too killing a few people?
    Poor New Orleans in fairness. But still. There was always gonna be a big media response, considering the Flak that Dubya took the last time, the culling of the Republican convention, the knowledge of what recent storm damage can actually do to devestate New Orleans. This storm may hang around if it hits bad, may hang around all the way to the US elections if you know what I mean.


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