Hurricanes blow.

Can someone explain the logic of putting newspeople out in the middle of hurricanes?

I wrote about this somewhere else because I simply find it fascinating.

How many times do we need to see some poor idiot standing out in the middle of a driving rain to know how bad hurricanes are? Is this merely a question of geeky news directors, the guys who were part of the A/V club in high school enacting their revenge on the ‘pretty people?’

I’m thinking too in some way TV is doing a great disservice to people.

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If you tell people that a hurricane is coming and it’s a good idea to evacuate in advance of the storm then why would you send people into the midst of it? Isn’t that sending the message that it‘s okay and safe to ride out the storm? If the newspeople are willing to go into the middle of the storm, the reasoning probably is that it must be somewhat safe now, isn’t it?

I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow but perhaps one of the best moments in the film was this point where there is a plague of twisters in the LA basin and a newsclown is out in the street doing a report on it when a car is flung out by the wind of the twister taking the aforementioned newsie out.

It underlined the stupidity of sending newspeople into these things.

People are home watching the TV and every time one of these hurricanes hits there are a slew of newsies on the scene.

Yesterday or the day before, Geraldo Rivera was out in Galveston when suddenly a wave came along and took the footing out from underneath him.

Can you imagine?

I can see the headlines now, Geraldo Swept Out to Sea!

The man who boxed Frank Stallone, who gave us the secret of Al Capone’s vault and Trash TV taken from us in a singular moment of irony provided by Mother Nature.

They need to create a Jim Cantore award for these people but really they need to stop sending them out in this weather to begin with. Last time I checked, aside from flooding, rain, wind, tornados... well hurricanes are all pretty much the same, it’s just a question of how badly you’re going to be f*#$ed. (1179 Views pre transfer)