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Told you it was easy!
Well done, sir.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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You're giving me phobos, sorry I mean phobias.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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So, the authorities call for the evacuation of Florida, yet hundreds of news crew descend, desperately looking for the latest juicy tidbit of destruction and carnage with which to regale us, and talking at length about 'keeping an eye on' water level at some dock somewhere, with great authority of course.
And then that fake wind speed meter on CNN, at the bottom of the screen, replaying endlessly the same animated pattern. Utterly fake.
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So you're saying that CNN is fake news?
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Meanwhile back at the HQ: [CNN]
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Reminds me of the Tsunami in Phuket, same sh*t on an international scale:
Literally hundreds of news crew down there 'on the scene,' filming (and on rare occasion token "help" a survivor) but mostly getting in the way and stopping rescuers to interview them, many jammed had themselves in on inbound rescue item flights (no worries, just unload them blankets ...), and their most repeated message: "please don't try to come here because inbound space, food, water, and accommodation are all in very desperate short supply."
They were filming and in the background of their vids there would be other film crews (and their support staff) doing exactly the same thing.
FFS, what bunch of completely idiot wankers. The news is more important than the people suffering.
I no longer watch the news, it's always overhyped and these days the people doing it are total brainless clods.
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Lopatir wrote: Literally hundreds of news crew down there 'on the scene,
Closely followed by the NGOs/Charaties wandering around with clipboards and cameras, trying to justify their salaries.
It all makes me want to puke. I think I hate the modern world you know. It is full of self interested assholes.
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What does it need more that US authorities do help the People in US?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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All the Irma stuff is way more exciting than the recovery efforts from Harvey. The public wants to see the damage as it's happening, but not much of an appetite for the aftermath. At the moment, we're all focused on 'the big one' which seems to be moving so slowly that the media outlets will have something interesting to cover for the next half-week! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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As Darth already said: This is CNN[^]
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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clearly the whole thing is just fake news perpetuated to sell advertising eye balls and bottled water. I'd add a link to Rush Limbaugh but then I'd have to move the whole thread to the Soapbox.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It is getting faker by the day. Now it is only 100 mph winds!
(Dont you suppose all those people told to evacuate, who are now stuck on some highway heading north, slowly, into the path the storm will take, are in greater danger than if they had stayed in their homes? Seems so to me. Not to mention the looters who are now on the rampage. )
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Now it is only 100 mph winds!
ever experienced 100 mph winds?
there's nothing "only" about it.
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In the south west of the UK we get some pretty fierce storms. I think the record for Cornwall is 117 mph.
I remember once winds in the back garden that sounded like a jet engine. It was a hell of a gust. Fortunately I was in the kitchen looking out.
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I read that as "lobsters who are now on the rampage".
This just got serious 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's really part of a bigger picture - the mindless hyping of every event. Every storm seems to be a storm-of-the-century (I exaggerate, but only a bit).
You have several groups at fault:
- News crews with nothing to really report - so they just talk (learned from sport casters).
- Pundits with nothing to say so they create endless scenarios, competing with one another.
- Sponsors who'll pay the above to to do what they do. These three consider it entertainment.
- Critics who will bitch if it's understated or hyped, because they need to complain about the
media as though they hate what they need to complain to validate their existence.
- But most to blame is a world-wide public who's every more witless in their interpretation of
information.
I just look at the NOAA[^] for reports without an agenda. Just probabilities.
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This made me laugh. I needed that. 
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Keep safe people, and stay updated! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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All they have to do is repeat this a few more times and everyone will just ignore them... crying wolf, etc. The ridiculous repetition....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The media has it's own cloud now.
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I think folks like the ones in CNN, would be more happy to see destruction happen.
If the hurricane swirl on the map just took some turn and moved away from your country, the reactions inside their rooms would be like "Oh sh*t this swirl of cr*p changed its mind, we need to get back to some other boiling hot news". If nothing's boiling, of course they can make one do.
We got a lot of CNNs in India.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: CNN, at the bottom of the screen, replaying endlessly the same animated pattern. Utterly fake.
It is easily believable that CNN would be inaccurate but what makes you think the wind meter is wrong?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well . . . he was there, too, and his complaining is because he didn't get on TV to give the results of his own pinwheel anemometer (wind meter). He just bought a new raincoat for his TV appearance, too!
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In general, I liked the coverage (CNN and local networks that sent reporters down there) ; I watch couple of minutes here and there all over the day yesterday, and it was enough.
I would not have spend the whole day watching it though.
As much as I would have liked to be in the wind there (tied up and fully dressed with a fullface helmet), I was happy to be lounging at home.
For what it's worth, It was very impressive !!
I'd rather be phishing!
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