Posted on 09/14/2017 7:51:35 AM PDT by rktman
Having lived right off the water in Pensacola for thirteen years and lived through several hurricanes, my wife and I have learned to be wary of the media when it comes to these storms. First, they always exaggerate the deadly potential of approaching storms, which some might consider a good thing, as it motivates citizens to prepare their property and possessions and to evacuate from vulnerable areas. However, there's the risk that such overselling a storm's threat creates a future risk that the citizenry will ignore warnings of a true killer storm.
What I find unforgivable is the way the mainstream media, and that includes Fox News nowadays, exaggerate the damage and destruction in a storm's aftermath, creating huge anxieties in those displaced citizens unable to return to their homes until authorities give them permission. I well recall how fearful and anxious we were as evacuees up in Alabama, hearing the media use terms like total devastation to describe hurricane damage to the Pensacola area, and how worried we were as we drove back, expecting to find little remaining of our waterfront suburb, only to find minor wind damage, trees and fences blown down, shingles blown off, etc.
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You downcaster, you. Watch out for wet hens.
I can’t even offer an opinion since I don’t watch TV! :-)
LOL, maybe somebody can aggregate it for you online with the proper apocalyptic slant.
Its true up to the time we lost power I was checking NOAA.COM search irma and found out that Channel 4 and 6 had bought there own software. An they repeated the same BS line every 20 seconds as a back drop for every so called expert. The last expert you could trust was Brian Norcross he explained in detail exactly what was going on and why. Since he left they go out and hire dolts who are just script readers. Thats basically what they are script readers. There was a made for TV show called Network that told the true story of the garbage that goes on at TV networks. Having relatives in the movie business I know from talking to them about the lieing to the public...+
I recognize that people in Texas and Florida really suffered from these storms. They were big storms.
But the media is in the business of selling advertising and pushing political propaganda. They have never seen a small storm. If you ask them, every storm is the Storm of the Century.
The state and local governments are in the business of tax increases and federal aid. They have never seen a storm which wasn’t The Biggest Disaster In The History of the State.
This all comes from the idea that government needs to rescue everyone from everything. Tax revenue from Montana and Maine needs to go to Texas and Florida because somebody needs help.
Really?
How about people build sensibly, local resources solve local problems, and sometimes bad stuff happens and people grieve.
Or maybe government should just get bigger and bigger until we achieve Utopia.
Look at the NOAA images. Big Pine Key is trashed. Marathon has higher quality structures, they seem much better off. Same with Key West.
“Media hyping hurricane damage to the Keys”
Why, what ever would give anyone that idea? An oldie but goodie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4
Key West lucked out in that they were not on the dirty side of the eye, it had passed to the east of them.
How EVERY story gets reported depends on who’s in the White House. Fake news, or at least Fake Spin.
Just looked at Bahia Honda state park, using the NOAA sat pics, where we stayed a few times over the years in their “stilt” house rentals. They appear to be standing and the eastern most of them has some shingles missing. You can see where the sand came across US 1. Obviously less well built structures were damaged of lost. Will they allow any more manufactured homes to be placed in Monroe County?
In the news business camera placement and camera angle are everything.
I live in a flood prone area. The local news crew knows exactly what camera angles to use to maximize the appearance of “disaster” during minor floods. This is the original fake news.
The media hypes everything.
I was talking to someone I know who lives in Houston, and when I asked her if her area was OK, she said there are huge swaths of Houston that came through the hurricane just fine, but the TV news is making it look otherwise.
I mentioned that during the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco they TV made it look like half the city was on fire, by filing the one one, or maybe two right next to each other, buildings that were on fire, from fifty different camera angles which made it look like they were all different structures.
I am not sure they do this for the specific reason of making things look worse than they are, versus the need to fill the screen with something attention-grabbing, but they have to know that they are presenting a false impression of reality.
Even old singlewides can be raised on pilings or “stilts” just as a house can be. That protects from flooding, surge and overwash but they’re fundamentally unsound construction for high winds. Anyone in tornado country can tell you that. Same with hurricanes, old style trailers collapse and blow apart far more easily than traditional site-built houses or newer modular construction built to code.
Yep, I always remember that Today Show reporter, paddling away in her canoe, reporting on how deep the flood waters were... when those two guys walk in front of the camera and show that she is in ankle-deep water.
The thing about Hurricanes is that 10-20 miles can make all the difference.
Take Andrew, had it struck only 10 miles north of where it did, the amount of damage would have easily tripled, because it would have hit the more populous areas of Dade County, rather than the relatively unpopulated area of Homestead.
Zombie did a real nice job of showing how they msm uses angles and views to prove “their” story line a few years ago. Linky thing:
http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_september_24_2005/anatomy_of_a_photograph/
WOW! Longer ago than I remembered. Time flies when we’re havin’ fun. Apparently.
“.....half the city was on fire.....” Uh, I better keep my comment to myself. ;-)
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