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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
This weather! Wow! Crazy. Seems like the last couple of years there have been more tornadoes than I have ever heard of before. Maybe it's just my perception since I'm following the news more.... 
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
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This weather! Wow! Crazy. Seems like the last couple of years there have been more tornadoes than I have ever heard of before. Maybe it's just my perception since I'm following the news more.... |
It certainly seems that way to me. At least with the hurricanes, we can track them and prepare. Can't do that with a tornado. You can be aware of the warnings, but not when or where they will pop out of the sky!
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05-26-2011, 09:44 AM
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
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This weather! Seems like the last couple of years there have been more tornadoes than I have ever heard of before. Maybe it's just my perception since I'm following the news more.... |
Believe it's both-statistical and perceptional. Reporters learn how to dramatize and be so animated about the weather--it's big business now. They go beyond normal concern, and tap into train wreck effect. Apparently viewers appreciate emotional prompting about how to feel about disasters.
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05-26-2011, 09:54 AM
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
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Believe it's both-statistical and perceptional. Reporters learn how to dramatize and be so animated about the weather--it's big business now. They go beyond normal concern, and tap into train wreck effect. Apparently viewers appreciate emotional prompting about how to feel about disasters.
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I understand what you are saying, but living in tornado alley, I appreciate their precision on reporting exactly where the bad weather is expected. The more aware they make people, the less lives are lost.
I don't need emotional prompting to know that an F5 tornado can kill me.
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05-26-2011, 09:56 AM
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
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I understand what you are saying, but living in tornado alley, I appreciate their precision on reporting exactly where the bad weather is expected. The more aware they make people, the less lives are lost.
I don't need emotional prompting to know that an F5 tornado can kill me.
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Right! LOL!
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05-26-2011, 10:11 AM
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
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I understand what you are saying, but living in tornado alley, I appreciate their precision on reporting exactly where the bad weather is expected. .
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I'm in tornado alley too, and do appreciate all the precision they can muster. Too bad "precision of prediction" is only mearsurable after the fact! But of course better too many warnings than not enough.
What bugs me is how they capitalize on "weather as entertainment." So now the "best" reporter will be obliged to stand on the shore in his fishing waders, to show us what it feels like for an approaching hurricane to knock you down. Puh-leez.
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05-26-2011, 10:18 AM
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
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I'm in tornado alley too, and do appreciate all the precision they can muster. Too bad "precision of prediction" is only mearsurable after the fact! But of course better too many warnings than not enough.
What bugs me is how they capitalize on "weather as entertainment." So now the "best" reporter will be obliged to stand on the shore in his fishing waders, to show us what it feels like for an approaching hurricane to knock you down. Puh-leez.
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Lol.
Well, I only watch when I know there's danger in my area. I like that they can tell me to expect it at 7:10 and they've been right on everytime.
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05-26-2011, 10:54 AM
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
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I'm in tornado alley too, and do appreciate all the precision they can muster. Too bad "precision of prediction" is only mearsurable after the fact! But of course better too many warnings than not enough.
What bugs me is how they capitalize on "weather as entertainment." So now the "best" reporter will be obliged to stand on the shore in his fishing waders, to show us what it feels like for an approaching hurricane to knock you down. Puh-leez.
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"Best" reporter? I think Geraldo was the only one who really did that. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FziScjyf4Ic
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To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
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05-26-2011, 11:12 AM
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
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"Best" reporter? I think Geraldo was the only one who really did that. |
Wouldn't know, I'm not a connoisseur of TV news, thanks to silly trend of sensationalization I've noticed in recent decade. Obviously makes money for them, but drives me away. Merely grabbed one example, but I recall several reporters trying to scream through the wind with desperate expressions, on this or other impending hurricanic disasters. Maybe I made up the fishing waders, don't recall. Carry on...
God help Joplin...
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05-26-2011, 09:16 PM
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Re: Tornados... 89+ dead in Joplin, MO
I hadn't seen a weather reporter actually do that, but I have seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uDXu...eature=related
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