I'm inclined to think that the media is getting a little hot under the collar with this one. Especially when the local newspaper takes a "Tropical storm force winds expected for area: So this is it, we're going to die" approach to its headlines.
On the other hand, you never really know until you're not in Kansas anymore.
Ah, you meant the hurricane, not the elections. Nemmind, carry on...
People basically don't do the journalism thing very well, so here we've been hearing about the expected dreadful effects of the hurricane as top news since Friday. It's been nothing but gentle rain all this time, and I will bet my Poppea DVD with von Otter that it will continue like this.
Oh yeah, the elections. My voting life started with Ronald Reagan and has survived George I, George II, and George II again because it wasn't fun enough the first time around, so it's hard to think of Mitt Romney as rating *Das Ende* in the Wagnerian Vera Lynn sense, even if the guy wins.
On the other hand, the aforementioned Kansas analogy applies here, too.
Odds really that bad?
ReplyDeleteI'm inclined to think that the media is getting a little hot under the collar with this one. Especially when the local newspaper takes a "Tropical storm force winds expected for area: So this is it, we're going to die" approach to its headlines.
DeleteOn the other hand, you never really know until you're not in Kansas anymore.
Ah, you meant the hurricane, not the elections. Nemmind, carry on...
ReplyDeletePeople basically don't do the journalism thing very well, so here we've been hearing about the expected dreadful effects of the hurricane as top news since Friday. It's been nothing but gentle rain all this time, and I will bet my Poppea DVD with von Otter that it will continue like this.
Oh yeah, the elections. My voting life started with Ronald Reagan and has survived George I, George II, and George II again because it wasn't fun enough the first time around, so it's hard to think of Mitt Romney as rating *Das Ende* in the Wagnerian Vera Lynn sense, even if the guy wins.
DeleteOn the other hand, the aforementioned Kansas analogy applies here, too.
How is this not just a regular cloudy sky, I don't know.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/nyt-webcam.html
(Iconic skyline though, no denying.)
It may look like a regular cloudy sky right now, but on the off chance it rains Death from Above in midtown, the NYT will have it live, dammit.
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