Hurricane coverage is kinda funny.  We were watching CNN this morning as Hurricane Dennis was making landfall, and they only had a person on the beach in Florida a couple hundred miles from the eye.  That wasn’t good enough for me, I wanted someone in Alabama or Pensacola.  So naturally I turned to Fox News, as they are more likely to have that kind of death and destruction.

So when they aren’t talking to people on the beach, they cut back to two people in the studio.  This lady gives a weather update like every ten minutes, and as you know a hurricane doesn’t change all that much in ten minutes.  So she’s going over the satellite pictures again, when the anchorman questions her about the wind speeds, very condescendingly.  Now you can tell she’s quite annoyed that he questioned her, so she’s starts raising her voice, and she’s no longer looking at the camera but at the anchorman who is behind the camera and a little to the left.  And she’s spouting off the sources of this information.  It was quite funny.

I guess if everything I said after working for twelve hours straight was broadcast on national tv I’d say some pretty dumb things too.

Fair And Balanced®

Update:  4:15 PM
I just turned the hurricane coverage back on for a few minutes to find a reporter who literally cannot stand up straight because of the wind and rain.  And the camera man pans around to show the area, and you see someone else standing in the background.  The lady in the studio asks “what is that person doing in the parking lot?” and the guy responds “that is another reporter I believe.”  Haha!

Update 2:  11:45 PM
One more to add.  CNN showed this clip about a hundred times tonight (I caught it around 7:00) that I will refer to as “The Sheet Metal Video”.  There are some reporters and camera men, and they are in Pensacola Florida, and big pieces of sheet metal are flying down the road and they are jumping out of the way.  All the while you’re thinking- ‘it would be cool if one of those pieces of sheet metal flew right into that guy’s throat.  It’d cut his head clean off.’  It was crazy.

You can in fact view that video footage right here.  I like how the guy who’s yelling “Get back! Get back!” is the person who is standing the furthest out.  And look for the guy in blue who takes cover behind the camera man who is also wearing blue.  And I like how the two reporters argue about who has been standing in the strongest wind.