Hurricane reporting

Mikeyy · #1 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 10:42 AM

Is there anything more ridiculous the watching reporters standing in the wind and rain.

saltwn · #2 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

Is there anything more ridiculous the watching reporters standing in the wind and rain.

That's how some of them got their big break. With their potential paychecks, I don't think a little rain will harm them.

Mikeyy · #3 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

That's how some of them got their big break. With their potential paychecks, I don't think a little rain will harm them.

Its comical because we can't see crap. Just the reporter being blown around. I watched one get blown down the sidewalk today. Its funny to watch. They stand there with water blowing in their ears rolling their eyes about people who are too dumb to leave. Here is a clue for reporters. Leave. Go to hollywood. Get in a wind tunnel and report. It will be just as entertaining and we will see just as much. And then you can relax on the beach the rest of the day.

cnredd · #4 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:23 PM

They should have a camera taped to a telephone pole and then have the reporter report from the studio with hurricane noises added in...

Mikeyy · #5 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

They should have a camera taped to a telephone pole and then have the reporter report from the studio with hurricane noises added in...

Hell, I couldn't tell the difference. They ought to change the huricane catagory system from 1-5 to 1 fallen reporter , 2 fallen reporters etc. All the way to "reporter swinging from pole with all clothes ripped off". You could start from "Reporter can't light cigarette"

cnredd · #6 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

Hell, I couldn't tell the difference. They ought to change the huricane catagory system from 1-5 to 1 fallen reporter , 2 fallen reporters etc. All the way to "reporter swinging from pole with all clothes ripped off". You could start from "Reporter can't light cigarette"

Runny mascara = 5...

Mikeyy · #7 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:50 PM

The other thing I notice is that you have a reporter holding nothing but a Mic and they can't stand still. But the camara man doesn't move at all. Maybe there is just a little acting going on. Do they have awards for hurricane reporting. They may be haming it up.

cnredd · #8 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

The other thing I notice is that you have a reporter holding nothing but a Mic and they can't stand still. But the camara man doesn't move at all. Maybe there is just a little acting going on. Do they have awards for hurricane reporting. They may be haming it up.

I wouldn't be surprised if the camera people were strapped to trees with their own belts...

cnredd · #9 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 04:01 AM

Speaking of...

High Chance of Blowhards

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Is it really a hurricane, or even just a "tropical depression," unless a TV reporter in a hooded windbreaker is flopping around in the wind and rain like a landed flounder?

Is it really a weather story at all unless the TV people can go outside in the storm and, while risking bodily injury, warn viewers that they shouldn't go outside in the storm and risk bodily injury?

If so, Hurricane Gustav was a real storm: All of the cliches and hyper-theatrical tropes of TV hurricane coverage were at Category 5 yesterday.

TV correspondents bellowing while taking facefuls of driving rain? Got it. Reporters hunched and squinting in the teeth of hurricane-force winds? Got that, too. Reporters dressed in the standard uniform of the intrepid weather correspondent -- colorful-but-flimsy network-logo jacket and ball cap -- to dramatize the effects of the driving rain and hurricane-force winds? Oh, yeah, got that, too.

It's not enough to report on a storm by showing TV viewers its impact. Dramatic as it is, the standard B-roll footage of pounding surf, wind-whipped palm trees and mangled power lines serves as a mere palate-cleanser. On storm stories, TV reporters are required to interact with the weather and become, potentially, human sacrifices to it.

This makes weather reporting different than every other kind of breaking TV news story. No one covers a house fire by rushing into the burning building, or reports on a war by doing stand-ups in the middle of a tank battle.

faithful_servant · #10 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

Hell, I couldn't tell the difference. They ought to change the huricane catagory system from 1-5 to 1 fallen reporter , 2 fallen reporters etc. All the way to "reporter swinging from pole with all clothes ripped off". You could start from "Reporter can't light cigarette"

ROFL!!!!! That started my week out right...

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