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Edouard coverage in Houston

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Kevinc

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They're at it again. Reporters stationed all around with nothing to talk about. One was using the curb to measure the rainfall... and it wasn't even half way up.. another picked up a piece of something that looked like an old shingle... it probably had been laying in the parking lot since the last big storm..but he held it up and said something about it being debris that could have come from any rooftop in the area. Reporters were staggering as if they were being blown around by winds which the guys in the studio pointed out were only about 10-20 mph... and it appeared as if the camera guys were jostling their cameras and spraying the lens with water to make it look like it had been in a blowing rainstorm....

Ken Hoffman goes into more details and names names in a blog on the Houston Chronicle website.

Kevinc.....
 
As usual. The "Weather Experts" did their best to scare the public. While I am all for being prepared, please don't cause a panic just because you are trying to sell ads on next years storm tracker pamphlets. When a big storm does hit the area you, the "Weather Experts" will be the blame when many people do not heed your warnings,and many are hurt or worse, since you have been crying wolf for so long, no one will believe you.
 
What makes their coverage so freightening is that when the storm moved in with little or no wind in the Metro area and just enough water to feed the thirsty lawns it just puts the public at ease when the big one really does come. The Houston stations' coverage is the classic "Boy Who Cried Wolf". It's embarrassing to those of us who have lived here all our lives. KTRK going the full day for nothing more than an average rain shower (well maybe more than a shower) is astoundingly over-the-top and stupid. It was funny as usual to watch Wayne Dolchefino "in the teeth of the beast" getting blown about while everone else just stands around waiting for the director to yell, "CUT". At least when you go to the Weather Channel you know what you're getting.

With TV ratings and revenue dropping into an endless abyss, they are just trying to do anything to produce future promotional spots that will run adnauseum as they fill unsold advertising inventory. Some stations are down 20% in revenue year-to-date and that is unprecidented in modern electronic media. You'll see the first promos today on how "our expert hurricane coverage saved lives and property." This is turning into a giant Sat Night Live sketch.
 
Here lies the problem with TV stations on the gulf coast: Since "katrina", every stations has been on its toes to deliver "top notch" storm coverage. Its more about hyping a product than saving lives, which is a shame. Its the same thing up here in D/FW when we get a "small" amount of "Frozen Precipatation" on the ground, it turns into 14 hrs of wall to wall live coverage out in some BFE location west of Ft. Worth getting "man on the street" interviews or standing like a jackass on some highway overpass somewhere near denton talking about de-icing. Im like alot of people in this situation, I turn on weather channel or weather.com to watch the idiot-free coverage.
 
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