Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Stupid snow coverage


You know, I can look outside and see that it's snowing, see the wind blowing and I can assume the roads are crappy. All the schools are closed and I'm happy to watch the little ticker go by all day long on my local channels. What I can't understand is why they have to interrupt programming ALL morning long saying the same thing over and over. Showing the poor, low on the totem pole reporters freezing their butt off.

And as I write this post someone on the news just said that people have called in and said get off the air! Too funny. But alas, they say it's a dangerous event and they've been on since 4:00am and will continue on through the storm. Do you think the meterologists get off on this? I mean, normally they're only on the air for like 4 min during a news broadcast, but during this they get to sit in the center of the news desk and tell us all about wind chills, blowing and drifting and weather advisories all day long.

Okay, I'll stop now because obviously it won't make any difference!!

2 comments:

monica said...

I was thinking the same thing last night! It drives me crazy how some stations do team coverage of the weather. They station reporters in different areas and have them report live about the weather where they are. As if it differs that much from the other cities in the same viewing area?

Unknown said...

It drives me nuts too! Between the news and listening to my mom talk about the weather - you'd think snow was a new thing - we've lived in Michigan all our lives and yet in the past few years - snow is a huge event and things come to a stop!