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Why do journalists insist on false reporting? Hurricane Tomas did not affect Ireland.

  • 09-11-2010 1:51pm
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    Su Campu
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    First time on this forum, and I hope a lot of journalists are reading.

    I'm sure many of you were on the Weather forum over the weekend, and will be again Thursday as another windy spell affects us. What I and everyone else just cannot understand is why you insist on reporting that the storm system we got Sunday and Monday of this week had anything to do with Hurricane Tomas. It was not related whatsoever.

    Hurricane Tomas was in the Caribbean over the weekend, and its remnants are now in the Bermuda area. The storm we got on Sunday night was a normal winter depression that started life off the US east coast. It passed by southern Greenland late on Saturday, then intensified as it headed southeastwards towards us Sunday. This all happened as Hurricane Tomas passed by Haiti and to the east of the Bahamas, thousands of miles away.

    On Friday morning, RTÉ incorrectly stated that forecasters said it was the remains of Tomas, but were quick to correct their error when it transpired that nobody from Met Éireann said any such thing. By Friday evening, however, many of the print and online media were still going with the Tomas story, with the Herald's frontpage headline reading "HURRICANE ON THE WAY", and it still being reported so today, with Killian Doyle of the Irish Times reporting that the Prowler waves surfed off the west coast yesterday "materialised when the massive swell generated by Hurricane Tomas slammed into Ireland yesterday". Absolute waffle.

    This type of journalism has no place in our society, and could in fact cause unwarranted panic among some members of the public.

    Stop trying to sell newspapers through sensationalistic lies that you call headlines.

    I suggest you read this thread to see the opinions of the Weather forum regulars.


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