American media kept Hurricane Fay on the front pages for almost three weeks, despite the fact that Fay NEVER reached official hurricane status.
Reporters are no longer reporters, they're actors in a sort of news soap opera. News is no longer news, it's entertainment, a truth-twisting saga that is part reality, part wishful thinking, and part sensationalism.
Just where does Gustav sit with this knee-jerk emotionalism? Your guess is as good as mine.
New Orleans is being evacuated, and that's a good thing, for sure, but trying to nail down Gustav facts is as difficult as closing out a Mets game. Gustav, for example, was downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane early Sunday; is there any chance at all that New Orleans can dodge this bullet? If there is, NOBODY is reporting it. When you can't trust a weather report, your news services are in serious trouble.
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