South Florida Media

[jlauderdal]

Channel 10 had a reporter posted in a grocery store parking lot this morning looking for people stocking up. There is just all kinds of thing wrong with them sending someone there including wasting their own resources and causing undo concern among people that don't know better. I almost feel bad for the anchor(todd tongen) and the reporter, both the anchor and reporter are being asked by the producer to make something out of nothing.

[Sanibel]

Yeah, I didn't mean to cause the poster "Recurve" to go get supplies yesterday with my post on the HWRF headed towards Key Largo. But thinking in bed to myself I figure most posters in Florida know the routine and it was up to them. I didn't want to tell him to or tell him not to. I do know I don't want to take blame for anyone getting supplies unnecessarily. Fortunately, most supplies like water and batteries can be used in the off-season anyway.

It's a wait till you see the whites of their eyewall type decision.

[jinftl]

If you think that is bad, the on-air anchor on CNN (not the met) said earlier in one sentence that Bill could be a category 3 in a few days and warnings have been placed up for part of Florida!!!

He was mixing together Bill and TD4....very very irresponsible.

[Frank2]

Well, that's CNN for you (Crazy News Network)...

I happened to see the same Channel 10 newscast this morning - except that the reporter in the earlier portion of the newscast was standing in an empty Home Depot parking lot...

Of course they showed video of two men loading a generator into their truck, so you can imagine what the average person thinks when seeing that...

I'm convinced that the media has taken the role of car salesman - the more intimidation, false information and a false sense of excitment that they can generate, the more money (ratings) they will bring in...

Sadly, as in the days of Hurricane Camille (40 years ago tomorrow), the Walter Conkrite honest style of reporting is gone...

Frank

[jinftl]

I hear ya...but to be fair...not all tv mets are out to sensationalize and get ratings...first name that comes to mind is Bryan Norcross on CBS4 Miami. His is a voice of knowledge and reason.

Well, that's CNN for you (Crazy News Network)...

I happened to see the same Channel 10 newscast this morning - except that the reporter in the earlier portion of the newscast was standing in an empty Home Depot parking lot...

Of course they showed video of two men loading a generator into their truck, so you can imagine what the average person thinks when seeing that...

I'm convinced that the media has taken the role of car salesman - the more intimidation, false information and a false sense of excitment that they can generate, the more money (ratings) they will bring in...

Sadly, as in the days of Hurricane Camille (40 years ago tomorrow), the Walter Conkrite honest style of reporting is gone...

Frank

[jlauderdal]

I hear ya...but to be fair...not all tv mets are out to sensationalize and get ratings...first name that comes to mind is Bryan Norcross on CBS4 Miami. His is a voice of knowledge and reason.

Well, that's CNN for you (Crazy News Network)...

I happened to see the same Channel 10 newscast this morning - except that the reporter in the earlier portion of the newscast was standing in an empty Home Depot parking lot...

Of course they showed video of two men loading a generator into their truck, so you can imagine what the average person thinks when seeing that...

I'm convinced that the media has taken the role of car salesman - the more intimidation, false information and a false sense of excitment that they can generate, the more money (ratings) they will bring in...

Sadly, as in the days of Hurricane Camille (40 years ago tomorrow), the Walter Conkrite honest style of reporting is gone...

Frank

yep, these werent tv mets, this was an anchor and reporter on the orders of a producer having to do these packages today, it was really lame. funny thing is its the same station max mayfoeld works for, of course he wasnt on had nothing to do with the lineup of stories.

[jlauderdal]

If you think that is bad, the on-air anchor on CNN (not the met) said earlier in one sentence that Bill could be a category 3 in a few days and warnings have been placed up for part of Florida!!!

He was mixing together Bill and TD4....very very irresponsible.

not surprised at all. my mom is scheduled to come down tuesday from chi-town so i took a pre-emptive strike yesterday morning at 530 am before she could get caught up in the wrong direction and sent her a link to NHC site and said if you must watch tv for updates than tropical update on TWC at 50 after the hour( i had to give her a tv option) and i also said under no circumstances should you listen to information from cnn, msnbc and especially fox since the weekend weather babe on fox is nothing more than eye candy. I said I will not respond to any discussion of something you heard about hurricanes on those three outlets. it worked because last evening she sent me an email and said the nhc site had the system going south of us as a tropical storm.

[MHurricanes]

Well, that's CNN for you (Crazy News Network)...

I happened to see the same Channel 10 newscast this morning - except that the reporter in the earlier portion of the newscast was standing in an empty Home Depot parking lot...

Of course they showed video of two men loading a generator into their truck, so you can imagine what the average person thinks when seeing that...

I'm convinced that the media has taken the role of car salesman - the more intimidation, false information and a false sense of excitment that they can generate, the more money (ratings) they will bring in...

Sadly, as in the days of Hurricane Camille (40 years ago tomorrow), the Walter Conkrite honest style of reporting is gone...

Frank

It's all about ratings, which is all about money. Reporting facts is secondary to pushing the Nielsen numbers.

The news anchors on most local networks are cluelesss when it comes to understanding basic meteorology.

- CAT5 Cane

[Dr. Strangelove]

the Walter Conkrite honest style of reporting is gone...

Seriously. The idea of reserved, objective, responsible journalism on television is as dead as he is.

TV news as it is now is just a shallow, sensationalist attempt to grab ratings and sell commercials. It's not just a generational thing, either - I'm only 21, and I know I certainly don't give a hoot in hell about the "octomom" or Jon and Kate, nevermind what uninformed, painfully stupid remarks are being posted about the subject on Twitter by twits with too much time on their hands. I can't believe a national news channel actually reads that stuff on-air.

I guess I kinda went into a rant there, but the whole idea of "infotainment" is just awful and is literally making this country stupider by the day.

[jlauderdal]

the Walter Conkrite honest style of reporting is gone...

Seriously. The idea of reserved, objective, responsible journalism on television is as dead as he is.

TV news as it is now is just a shallow, sensationalist attempt to grab ratings and sell commercials. It's not just a generational thing, either - I'm only 21, and I know I certainly don't give a hoot in hell about the "octomom" or Jon and Kate, nevermind what uninformed, painfully stupid remarks are being posted about the subject on Twitter by twits with too much time on their hands. I can't believe a national news channel actually reads that stuff on-air.

I guess I kinda went into a rant there, but the whole idea of "infotainment" is just awful and is literally making this country stupider by the day.

yeah its all absurd. okay we can talk about the media but it has to have a hurricane/weather component or we get paddled so maybe we can get jon and kate to follow hurricanes.

[cpdaman]

well all the hurricane's hullabloo can get consumers to run out and buy stuff and stimulate the economy yea yea
but ya it's usually good for ratings as well

[DanKellFla]

Of course they showed video of two men loading a generator into their truck, so you can imagine what the average person thinks when seeing that...

Their old generator is broken?

Can't we just all say that we are preparing for the ZOMBIES!!!