hurricane news coverage

Namelessv1 · 26th September 2004, 06:27

Over the past six weeks, the state of Florida has been hit by four hurricanes: Charley, Frances, Ivan, and the latest, Jeanne.

However, what strikes me as odd is that every major American cable news channel that I've seen covering these hurricanes, CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel, has found it absolutely necessary to send out a reporter to the state of Florida to be pounded by rain near the storms.

Has the news media's credibility dwindled so low that they need to have people standing relatively near the paths of the storms for us to actually believe them when they say there is a hurricane? What's the point?

26th September 2004, 06:27	#1
Namelessv1 Forum King Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 4,757	hurricane news coverage Over the past six weeks, the state of Florida has been hit by four hurricanes: Charley, Frances, Ivan, and the latest, Jeanne. However, what strikes me as odd is that every major American cable news channel that I've seen covering these hurricanes, CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel, has found it absolutely necessary to send out a reporter to the state of Florida to be pounded by rain near the storms. Has the news media's credibility dwindled so low that they need to have people standing relatively near the paths of the storms for us to actually believe them when they say there is a hurricane? What's the point?

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