Are you tired of the media making mountains out of mole hills?
Everything that comes across on the internet, TV or radio is like “The end of the world is nigh! Better prepare!” and absolutely nothing happens.
They’ve been make a huge deal out of this “major winter storm” that was supposed to hit last night. You’d think it was the coming of the next ice age.
I woke up, looking forward to piles and piles of snow, like what they had up north….and there was nothing. Just a dusting.
For the last 10 years, every spring, you would think Kansas is about to get wiped off the map by the storms…and they’re the same damn storms I’ve been through all my life! Maybe 1 per season is anything to even mention on Facebook. In the 20 years I’ve lived in this house, only 2 of those storms were worth contemplating hitting the cellar over.
Do you find the exaggeration annoying, and worse, could it be dangerous, like the Boy Who Cried Wolf? Nobody is even listening any more.
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One person’s mountain is another person’s molehill.
Yeah. I can see how this could really freak a person out.
The media is so used to sensationalizing EVERYTHING to get the publics attention they stop at nothing.
Up here the weather networks down play snow amounts, they say nothing to worry just a couple of centimetres ,and we get 30 which is a foot if ya want to know.
Yes I hate it. Ours went from 11 inches to 1.5 overnight. Snowmageddon on the news. Ugh.
It’s to the point I just ignore them, even when they forecast tornadoes.
My mother watches television, and she’s the target audience. They know she is terrified of storms and snow, and they play it up. I have to talk her down by reading the weather service prediction for her area. When you get your news from corporate media, you’re bound to be hit with this kind of thing.
Stuff like that makes it tough to take any of it seriously.
When I get tired, I ignore. Several millions more like me and it might affect their ratings enough for them to change their approach.
Woke up to another dusting of snow. My daughter brought the twins over, and I commented that it looks like we got another major snow storm over night.
She said, “Yeah. The weather man must be a guy. Only a guy would call half an inch 7 inches.”
I’ve always lived in dry climates; one inch of rain is “flood watch” where I’m from. It gets a little ridiculous sometimes.
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