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Television coverage of any event is driven by product and ratings 
In Response To: I agree the coverage was pretty overblown... 
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() They have a lot of time to fill and ratings to meet. As they say, "Never let a good crisis go to waste". Got to get those ratings. If we must distort then so be it. After all, it is show business and not news any more.
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- A WestCoast professional weatherman's perspective on Irene
- WX
- I agree the coverage was pretty overblown...
- Hinckley yard must be full
- Overblown?
- Television coverage of any event is driven by product and ratings
- Hinckley yard must be full
- Saturday evening & Sunday was my concern
- But up until the point that the system went from Cat 1 to TS...
- I don't know, Irene was still a bit more than "just a rain storm" when it made a second landfall here in NJ...
- it's only a matter of time until we have hurricane names sponsored such as the "Lowe's Hurricane Irene"...