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White Marlin
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| First of all I realize it is "Predicting" and there is no science that is capible of accurately forecasting what is going to happen.............................But. I think there is a large amount of drama built into both predicting as well as reporting the weather. I have seen for years the path of a hurricane predicted, and fear put into people in order to keep the viewer, which translates into ratings. In short scare people about what is going to happen and they will watch the channel that predicts what they are scared of alot longer than hearing good news and changing the channel to "I love Lucy". The weather channel is notorious for broacasting the worst case and scaring the crap out of people as well as exploiting the trama that people have gone through after the event is over. I am sure we have all seen the microphone go into the face of a crying lady that has lost everything and her dog is still missing, and she is asked "Tell us how you feel, about this Catastrophy"? Or Jim Cantori (jerk) standing in waist deep water with a parka on that is about to be whipped off of him... Come on, don't tell me that is not Drama. Shouldn't this be illegal? How much drama or theater is in Broadcasted weather forecast?
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| 90% I take everything I hear from the Socialist media with a grain of salt. Sex,Drama, Action Sells!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i dont agree with the over dramatization,but they are trying to captivate a market and they blow things out of proportion...they scale a tropical storm like a cat 1 or 2,and a 1 or 2 like a 3 or 4......i would say IMO they 40-50 % above what the actual scenario is.....
  
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bluffman2 (8/27/2008)
i dont agree with the over dramatization,but they are trying to captivate a market and they blow things out of proportion...they scale a tropical storm like a cat 1 or 2,and a 1 or 2 like a 3 or 4......i would say IMO they 40-50 % above what the actual scenario is.....So, A grown man standing in a breezeway of a beachfront hotel in order to get the effect of the highest windgust possible so he can stand leaning into the gust while reporting live is not Drama? or Standing where the stormsurge soaks him while reporting how bad things are going to be or already are, is not Drama? I need to learn more, please explain.
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1st sententence i said..."i dont agree with the over dramatization".....i meant with them over dramatizing.....guess i should have been clearer...40-50% of what they do i think is drama......heck i seen jim fall down because he was leaning forward way to far to make it look like he was bracing himself in the 22knt wind....now that is drama.....i wasnt meaning for it to sound like i was not agreeing with it being over dramatized.....you ask how much weather reporting is drama and i said 40-50%.....sorry i didnt make myself clearer....
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i think its drama also. all the news stations are competing for viewers its called "yellow journalism"
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bluffman2 (8/27/2008)
1st sententence i said..."i dont agree with the over dramatization".....i meant with them over dramatizing.....guess i should have been clearer...40-50% of what they do i think is drama......heck i seen jim fall down because he was leaning forward way to far to make it look like he was bracing himself in the 22knt wind....now that is drama.....i wasnt meaning for it to sound like i was not agreeing with it being over dramatized.....you ask how much weather reporting is drama and i said 40-50%.....sorry i didnt make myself clearer....It's not you, I am anal about Details.
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| .[/quote] It's not you, I am anal about Details. [/quote] ok ill make it clear.... ITS WAY TOO MUCH OVER DRAMATIZED
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Cantori should be tied to a beachfront palm tree and allowed to perish
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Halfmoon (8/27/2008)
90% I take everything I hear from the Socialist media with a grain of salt. Sex,Drama, Action Sells!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE do not confuse Cantone and Co. with the media -- or if you're going to call them media please do not confuse that with a journalist. They are paid to keep asses inthe seats watching the show. Drama, most of it. But if that bald little bastard comes here, I'm leaving -- fast.
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90% I take everything I hear from the Socialist media with a grain of salt. Sex,Drama, Action Sells!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE do not confuse Cantone and Co. with the media -- or if you're going to call them media please do not confuse that with a journalist. They are paid to keep asses inthe seats watching the show. Drama, most of it. But if that bald little bastard comes here, I'm leaving -- fast. In other words JoeZ ain't no Drama.
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| And the drama and fear that they cause is part of what causes stores to run out of supplies, gas prices to go up, and general pannic that is uncalled for. I had the new media when it comes to storm reporting. That's why I look online for my reports and forecast. No drama behind most written words on the NHC site and most others that are not new outlets. Go to google news and look at the titles of the stories after a search for Gustav. It's all written with so much hype and drama to draw you in, it's unreal. It's all wishcasting. Predicting the worse.
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Those in New Orleans thought the same thing till Katrina changed their minds. Saw a NEWS clip on New Orleans 9th Ward residents and about all said that they would get the FLOCK out this time.....Maybe they didn't hype it up enough last time. But yes they generally hype it up more for ratings. Ratings=$$$
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This reminds me of the video on youtube where a reporter is sitting in a canoe reporting how bad the flooding is and then two guys walk right behind her in shin high water..........lol classic
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| HAHAHA Konz that is funny as hell. I had to go find it. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTogixKBAJU I think alot of the news is way over dramatized because it sells. People don't buy boring. I only watch the weather channel for local on the 8s. Other than that I don't usually watch the news or anything. I get my news from the internet because I know I can believe everything I read on the internet.  Seriously though I get my reports, be it weather or news, from the web because I can use my brain and decifer the info with out all the drama and I can get multiple sources. I am not being force fed by one source.
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| It's not all the weather channel though. I watched the ch 3 news as Fay was "crashing" in on us. I rofl'd.
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| Yall must have missed the one with the female in front of the camera.A piece of aluminum gutter slides by on the floor...and everyone, including the cameraman runs like hell...then they all take about the close call from the " massive piece of debris" that could have killed them all.I can see some poor helper off camera placing his foot on the massive killer to get it off set. The weather channel USED to be a great source, but now the dramatics reind me of a second rate soap opera.
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kingfish501 (8/28/2008)
Yall must have missed the one with the female in front of the camera.A piece of aluminum gutter slides by on the floor...and everyone, including the cameraman runs like hell...then they all take about the close call from the " massive piece of debris" that could have killed them all.I can see some poor helper off camera placing his foot on the massive killer to get it off set. The weather channel USED to be a great source, but now the dramatics reind me of a second rate soap opera. "Second rate soap opera"....Now thats good stuff.
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wysecw (8/28/2008)
HAHAHA Konz that is funny as hell. I had to go find it. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTogixKBAJU I think alot of the news is way over dramatized because it sells. People don't buy boring. I only watch the weather channel for local on the 8s. Other than that I don't usually watch the news or anything. I get my news from the internet because I know I can believe everything I read on the internet. Seriously though I get my reports, be it weather or news, from the web because I can use my brain and decifer the info with out all the drama and I can get multiple sources. I am not being force fed by one source. Oh, that's a priceless bit of "on the spot coverage"!!! And check out Michelle's paddling technique! I have seen little kids handle a canoe paddle better than that! I would bet that, if the truth were known, that was the first time she was ever in a canoe by herself and she sounded scared out of her knickers!!! (And her feelings were obviously hurt by Matt Lauer's calling her to task for her staged "flood" scene!!)
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