Rita’rded Reporting
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The level of absurdity in the news media is approaching mind-numbing proportions. I saw one reporter holding up a busted-up streetlight and talking at great length about how it had come hurtling down in front of them. Last night there was some “new video” of the aftermath of Rita being shown (on several competing news channels simultaneously). The video showed house after house after house that appeared to be perfectly fine. One of the anchors, struggling for something to say about the video, commented about some missing shingles.
Seriously, is there nothing else going on in the entire world for these people to talk about? What about the first successful test of an elevator into space? To me, that is far more interesting than how many streetlights have been blown down by a hurricane. Here’s a scoop for ya. Hurricanes happen EVERY YEAR. They do they same thing every time: They destroy buildings on coastlines. They knock down trees. They cause flooding. They knock out power. It’s quite routine.
Why don’t we do some investigative journalism into why the gas prices at my local gas station a thousand miles from Texas went up two days before the hurricane even made landfall? That would be something I’d like to see.
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