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I may be alone on this (or not): the Irene media issue I took issue with was not the amount of coverage, but the tone of some coverage.

Posted by ty97 Aug 30 '11, 10:18

Covering it near 24/7? It's a major news event and will impact people. I take no issue.
Putting people on the coast days before storm arrival? Seems a little unnecessary, but it's your budget. No issue there.

It's the media outlets (or media personalities) that played up the "be afraid and stay tuned" angle to up ratings. And there most certainly was some of that. There is quite a line between warning people a storm is dangerous and the fear-mongering that *some* media was partaking in.

I don't know what word you want to use to describe that, but it's what I took issue with (and I think I posted about this pre-Irene landfall FWIW)

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This argument is so tiresome, don't you think? The for-profit media is out toget ratings, and yes, that involves scaring people into watching. - con_carne Aug 30, 10:25 6
- complaining about weather media hype is like complaining about negative campaigning... - x Aug 30, 10:28 3
  - Quite to the contrary. I'm not a fool, I understand that both are very effective. - ty97 Aug 30, 10:30 2
    - a) i'm not calling you a fool. b) all i'm saying is that they do it because it works... - x Aug 30, 10:35 1
      - I know you aren't call me a fool, and I get the business model. - ty97 Aug 30, 10:46
- I'm every so sorry to have annoyed you by having an opinion. - ty97 Aug 30, 10:28 1
  - It's like clockwork on ST, someone always has to be sooo surprised with the sensationalism of journalism -- nm - con_carne Aug 30, 10:41
I didn't really notice a difference between Irene and every other major weather event of the past 10 years. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 30, 10:20 2
- same here. It looked exactly the same. -- nm - loosilu Aug 30, 10:24
- It's certainly not a new phenomenon or unique to Irene. -- nm - ty97 Aug 30, 10:23
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I may be alone on this (or not): the Irene media issue I took issue with was not the amount of coverage, but the tone of some coverage.

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