One almost has to leave the country altogether, for a while, to understand what is going on here. What passes for “news” is a lot of fluff and yes, propaganda. It’s local, too. Ever notice how long weather reports have expanded on your local news station? Do you have a “storm team” that breaks in your favorite program (but never during a commercial break) to report a potential tornado 150 miles away? One reason I read somewhere, lengthy weather reporting fills out the broadcast hour so that more pressing issues don’t have to be brought up. It makes a certain amount of sense - there are dozens of issues locally that are never discussed, at least only until hysteria ensues. Never any maintenance, just wait until it’s a crisis.
Storm team weather is out of conrol. We had a warning of a tornado in CT this summer. What a mess. The local weather man was trying to explain his pinpoint weather doppler by streets and the Emergency Broadcast System came on, completely overcame the local guy and the EBS just said to turn to channel 21. so we turn to 21 and there was nothing relevant. EBS is a joke. Actually the EBS is a travesty if there is ever a real crisis.
In any case, I lost the local because of the constant EBS and fortunately never was hit by the tornado but how absurd.