Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Opinion: When the Levee Doesn’t Break

What’s Wrong With the Media’s Weather Coverage
From Larry Olmstead, The Great Life blog at Forbes.com:

                               The small flooded section of Riverside Drive shown over and over on the news

First off, I’d like to send my condolences to the people of Memphis. Thanks to the weather, they have suffered emotionally and financially in the past few weeks. Actually that’s not really true.  It would be more accurate to say they have suffered emotionally and financially in the past few weeks thanks to the weather media. Accuracy is the key word here, and ironically, in an entire industry that should be built on accuracy, weather folks have little regard for the truth.

If the cameras had panned out, you would have seen that the "flooded downtown" was just this short stretch of one road.

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