News, especially local news, has gotten much worse than when we were growing up. As Jon Stewart so eloquently put it, "The problem isn't that the news is biased toward liberal or conservative, the problem is that the news is biased toward sensationalism." (From memory, so I'm probably paraphrasing.) When we were growing up, news was boring. And that was a good thing. Now they're constantly trying to create a "big story" so people will watch, whether or not there really is a big story. I need to post the local news drinking game that was created by some friends who are video tech professionals. One of the items that I helped add to it was "gratuitous use of a helicopter," since that's recently become common around here.
Now the one non-curmudgeonly thought I have on all this is that in DC and the close-in suburbs (don't know about Baltimore), we did get substantially less snow than they were originally predicting. Some of my friends out in the western suburbs got about eight inches on Thursday night, and I haven't heard how much last night. Of course, they came into work on Friday with no particular trouble, so I guess that doesn't particularly excuse the news panic after all.
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Now the one non-curmudgeonly thought I have on all this is that in DC and the close-in suburbs (don't know about Baltimore), we did get substantially less snow than they were originally predicting. Some of my friends out in the western suburbs got about eight inches on Thursday night, and I haven't heard how much last night. Of course, they came into work on Friday with no particular trouble, so I guess that doesn't particularly excuse the news panic after all.