SATURDAY MEDIA --Storm saturation coverage and a few other notes and comments*On Friday, I poked (mostly) fun at all the saturation coverage of the coming storm and got a little heat from some nabobs of negativity.
"How could you be so insensitive?" --some of the heat from the usual suspects.
Meanwhile on KCBS, this (Saturday) morning, reporter Scott Lettieri did multiple reports on the storm while "I'm singing in the Rain" played in the background. Very insensitive.
Not to be outdone, as anchor Jon Bristow and his booming pipes went to another Lettieri weather story, the Eurythmics' 'Here comes the rain again' played in the background. Very creative.
And I'm insensitive?
*To be serious for a change, yes indeed it's a major storm event and people in the Bay Area are going to be inconvenienced --accidents on the freeways; major power outages; flooding in Marin and Santa Cruz; the inevitable personal stories of dread from Mill Valley home and business owners. There's a pattern developing.
NOTES...
*Pretty much all Bay Area TV/Radio will be wall-to-wall coverage of the storm and its effect on the nine counties...little digs aside, if you want the most comprehensive coverage, especially when it comes to traffic conditions and up-to-date weather info, I'd turn to KCBS which is tailor-made for this type of story...KTVU has a lot of its weekday staff on duty Saturday --including chief weather guy, Bill Martin, and reporters on the streets covering the storm ...same too, KGO-TV and a bevy of reporters around the Bay Area...PIX and KRON plan comprehensive coverage.
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Apparently there is no one old enough or has been in California long enough to remember that we used to have winters like this - back in the 1950's when I was growing up in the East Bay there was never a winter that didn't have the Russian and Napa rivers cresting, etc.
ReplyDelete@ 8:53am...of course you seem to forget that it was much rural and much less flood control, there's that.
DeleteI remember the Christmas 1955
Deleteflood when it rained for two
Solid weeks except Christmas
Day. Santa Clara County was
Nearly at a standstill. Thanks
For the memory 8:53.
a poke then a plug for KCBS...and it's San Anselmo that floods not Mill Valley just FYI
ReplyDeleteEvery time it looks like it's going to rain the gushing weather folks inundate us a flood of enthusiasm that saturates our minds with a 'what if'..
ReplyDeleteI think they are fair game for their overflow of enthusiasm that they dump on us, like the sports guys do when a team is doing well.
At least there is better forecasting now as compared to the Giddy Giddings days.
We're waiting, so far it's much ado about storm?, what storm?
ReplyDeleteWeather people report weather. A big potential storm is news. That's hard to understand?
ReplyDeleteNot nearly as miserable here as it is for the Raiders in Houston.
ReplyDeleteAmateur QB vs pros,on the pros field.
There's no storm just rain in San Jose. A better song would be "here comes the rain" by the Cult...
ReplyDeleteYou are so right. People should stumble into this weekend unprepared because it bothers you that a full court press public information campaign is underway to prep for the storm. I think we should tell cities, counties and the CHP to stop sending out emails and the endless tweets. So unnecesssry.
ReplyDeleteMuch like the saying, "If it bleeds, it leads," flooding and fallen trees makes for good video. It's like entertainment to some viewers.
ReplyDeleteRich,
ReplyDeletethe machete attack story is big one, Bay Area Media is barely covering it, no updates on victims' conditions.
There are rumors one victim died.
When crime waves happen at Bart stations, that means poor and lower-middle class are being victimized---nobody cares !
At least 2 people are dead so far and there is serious flooding all over the place. Yep, let's mock the media for telling us this was a big storm....
ReplyDeleteRich, please set me up with Jessica Castro
ReplyDeleteThe storm, which RL seems to think is a big hoot, is destroying homes and killing people. How is that amusing?
ReplyDeleteYou know it's a big event when Dan Ashley is on the early morning Sunday news!
ReplyDeleteAbc 7 did a good job I liked seeing Ashley on there it pointed to how important the story is
DeleteOakland seems to faring okay so far. A tree fell across Hwy 13 but no one hurt.
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