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Radio Chains Don't Serve Public Interest In September 11 Crisis

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In the process of moving my 11-year old South Florida Radio Pages web site to its new domain, I have been updating and recoding articles one by one.

Today, I uploaded an updated version of my September 2001 critique of radio coverage after September 11:

Radio Chains Don't Serve Public Interest In September 11 Crisis -- commentary
http://radiopages.net/radio/september11.html

Your comments are welcomed!

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What a load!

You people live inches above sea level in an area in which hurricanes hit regularly.
And every time it happens, you start whining.
And want to move back and rebuild. How dumb is that?
And now you're upset because radio isn't telling you the lights are out.
You had several days' warning (maybe from radio) telling you to get the hell out.
Now you're stuck there and you want radio to tell you what to do.
99 per cent of this so called emergency information boils down to "don't be stupid."
Unfortunately, that message is wasted on stupid people.
And you people live on a spit that's all swamp and sandbar.
Just to avoid snow?
The above statements also apply to New Orleans and the entire Southeast coast plus the Mississippi flood plain.
You people seceded once; they should have let you go.
The country is better off without the whole CSA.
 
I can't believe I'm agreeing with Flintstone!

When anyone chooses to live in harm's way, blaming anyone else for not taking care of your special needs makes no sense.
 
I don't know what planet you're posting from, Freddy, but "don't be stupid" also
applies to making unwarranted assumptions in your ridiculous attack postings.

You found weevils in your oatmeal this morning or something?

I even agree with a small part of your posting: Hollywood Lakes, for example,
is at or maybe even a little below sea level. It floods when there's dew
on the grass. Like a lot of New Orleans, it should not be rebuilt if ever
destroyed in a hurricane.

Thanks for the wonderful feedback on a site about September 11, moonbat.
 
The site about September 11th's radio coverage seemed to be much ado about nothing. It looked like someone simply kvetching to hear himself kvetch.
 
I agree with Fred, too.

How many times will you people rebuild before you get the message?

There is plenty of land that's high and dry. Federal dollars are really wasted rebuilding there for the umteenth time.

The only "weevils" around are crawling on the Florida beach. There are none where I live.

O, and since you asked, that Sept. 11 stuff is really tired.

I'm offended that you must resort to "name calling" to Fred. He was only expressing his opinion, as you have over FOUR thousand times. It seems that you can dish it out but you can't take it.
 
tjthedj said:
I agree with Fred, too.

How many times will you people before you get the message? There is plenty of land that's high and dry. Federal dollars are really wasted rebuilding there for the umteenth time.

The only "weevils" around are crawling on the Florida beach. There are none where I live.
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For the humorless TJ (while listening to Gounod's Funeral March of the Marionette for inspiration)

Weevils are often in grains and other cereal items from the factory. "Weevils are most
likely to be observed in a domestic setting when opening a bag of flour although they
will happily infest most types of grain including oats, barley and breakfast cereals." ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weevil

So, unless they neither grow nor package not eat grain products in your state, you
are quite uninformed.

O, and since you asked, that Sept. 11 stuff is really tired.

I'm offended that you must resort to "name calling" to Fred. He was only expressing his opinion, as you have over FOUR thousand times. You can dish it out but you can't take it, can you.
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So.... Why didn't he start his own thread to attack Florida?

The posting was about radio coverage of 9/11.

BTW, I wouldn't want to live in a low area or on the beach anyway.

Your arguments are relevant to New Orleans, not most of Florida (other than the beachfront).

And I already said I agree with him on that, so why are you continuing to beat me over the
head with it? Are you constipated?

Therefore, whatever you do, don't you DARE look at
http://RadioPages.net/radio/hurricane.html !!
 
WOW! I haven't heard "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" since I did a classical music show, "The Polk Brothers Showcase" on WXFM, (now wckg) Elmwood Park/Chicago in the mid-1960's as a teenager.

Thanks for the memory.

I don't know WHERE you shop to have WEEVILS in your flour - but maybe they don't allow them North of the M/D line. I've never seen one.
 
tjthedj said:
WOW! I haven't heard "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" since I did a classical music show, "The Polk Brothers Showcase" on WXFM, (now wckg) Elmwood Park/Chicago in the mid-1960's as a teenager.
Thanks for the memory.
I don't know WHERE you shop to have WEEVILS in your flour - but maybe they don't allow them North of the M/D line. I've never seen one.
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What? You haven't watched Hitchcock reruns in 40 years?
I just watched one, taped from TVland a while back, last week.
(So that's what killed my VCR!)

Sorry, I think most flour is packaged up nawwwwth. Didn't you read the article?
Maybe you're thinking of boll weevils ... per Brook Benton, "we're looking for a ho-o-o-o-ome."
 
As I recall, the Funeral March of Marionettes was the theme for Alfred Hitchcock's TV show.

No weevils in my oatmeal. Didn't have oatmeal this morning.
Didn't have grits, either. Never have grits.

The article from 954 spoke also of hurricane coverage in South Florida.
As well as 9-11 coverage (although there was no local emergency in Florida at that time - just Bush reading to kids).
  • Most radio stations ran TV audio: Looks like radio news is really dead.
  • All radio stations in Clear Channel's cluster ran the same coverage. Most other stations also ran duplicated coverage. Guess competition is also dead. Maybe radio people think listeners are too dumb to tune around if they are looking for coverage. Or maybe those execs think people should be required to listen to emergency coverage - even if they keep saying the same thing over and over and people would like to hear something else for a change. Sort of the same mentality that puts Bush making a speech on every major network.

Face it, when sh___ happens, people don't go to radio any more (unless they don't have power - maybe not even then).

Listening to radio in an emergency is useless.
In bad weather, people listen/watch weather reports telling them the weather is bad.
When people are stuck in traffic, they tune in the traffic report to tell them they are stuck in traffic.
At most, all they get from either is some illusion of control. (Oh, yes! The big red blotch on the map will move off. Oh, yes! They will tow off that over-turned truck and we will move again.)
In the middle of an emergency, if somebody hasn't gotten out of Dodge, they are not going to get out of Dodge.
So all radio has to offer are don't-be-stupid PSAs passed off as news, or instructions from local officials which - often as not - do tell people to do something stupid.
Remember all those lemmings stuck on the freeways trying to get out of Houston as a hurricane approached - all listening to the radio! Where they were was probably the worst place they could be but local stations got a helluva cume that day.
 
954 has some good points about the 9-11 coverage. But then broadcasters didn`t have a lot of experience with that sort of coverage or time to make plans. So far they`ve had five years to plan for the next attack, so maybe they`ll do better next time. Hopefully next time there won`t be a next time, but theres no guarentee of that.

As far as living in hurricane prone country is concerned, why doesn`t someone tell us where all this land is that never has hurricanes, tornados, floods or any other kind of natural or man made disaster? Is there room for all 290,000,000 of us to live there?
 
Actually, I'll tell you - it's the snowbelt parts of the country most of you guys fled from because you were tired of the winters. I live in Rochester, NY which has winter and road construction season. Actually, because of Lake Ontario, we have a climate comparable to parts of North Carolina because the lake moderates our winter temperatures. But it is very cloudy in the winter and often quite snowy. But snow won't kill you unless you have a heart attack while shoveling it.

We don't have major floods, tornadoes, mudslides, hurricanes, deadly lightning and hail, heatwaves that kill, subzero freezing that kills, major earthquakes, wildfires, riots, sinkholes, or scary woodland/water creatures that frighten or kill.

But people still move away because they hate dealing with winter.

But after watching the always-whining Californians combat all of the above (our advice: move!) or the sunbelt people demanding bailouts so they can rebuild their luxury condos on the same beach that the Army Corps just had to spend two years reconstructing, it does get a bit tiring. Now if people want to pay for the appropriate insurance coverage (at rates that truly reflect the actual risk), that's their business. But there is obviously a price to be paid living down there that can often be quite higher than having to deal with an annoying winter up here.
 
Phillip Dampier said:
Actually, I'll tell you - it's the snowbelt parts of the country most of you guys fled from because you were tired of the winters.
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Yeah, and instead of hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods and the like, we in the snowbelt get blizzards with over two feet of snow. No, it hasn't happened recently, but it did a few years back and has happened many times before then. How short our attention span is.

For the people who were kvetching about all us South Floridians bitching and moaning about hurricanes and returning to live in the region after each disaster, I'll explain it to you plainly and simply: during the 362 days out of the year that we aren't getting pummeled by hurricane-force winds, we love it here. For many of us, it's home. For others, it's a second home. Either way, we live in South Florida because we choose to, and if that means defying Mother Nature every year, so be it. Stupid? No. Stubborn, maybe, but with good reason: it's a little part of the world we love.
 
Josh C. said:
Yeah, and instead of hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods and the like, we in the snowbelt get blizzards with over two feet of snow. No, it hasn't happened recently, but it did a few years back and has happened many times before then. How short our attention span is.

For the people who were kvetching about all us South Floridians bitching and moaning about hurricanes and returning to live in the region after each disaster, I'll explain it to you plainly and simply: during the 362 days out of the year that we aren't getting pummeled by hurricane-force winds, we love it here. For many of us, it's home. For others, it's a second home. Either way, we live in South Florida because we choose to, and if that means defying Mother Nature every year, so be it. Stupid? No. Stubborn, maybe, but with good reason: it's a little part of the world we love.
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I'm sure the people living next to the volcano in Pompeii said much the same thing.

That's fine. As long as you don't expect the rest of us to pay for your defiance of Mother Nature.
Mother Nature always wins.
 
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