I guess the local TV news guys figured if those fake snow storms gin up their viewing numbers LETS ADD SPRING/SUMMER ‘TORNADO AND SEVERE STORM WARNINGS,,,
Oh, brother.
Hey, it’s for our own good, right?
Uh, wrong.
It’s all about the money, Jimmy. Get eyeballs on the tube and ear balls on the radio, because listenership goes way up when death and destruction come into play.
So pay attention, right?
Television media spent all day explaining their new system with loud siren blasts seemingly in your ears all night to warn you of impending doom and gloom from severe weather.
Get in the basement! Save yourselves!
Yep and the other night they let loose…tv weather news for hours on the huge storms and tornados that were coming. Did they? Of course not.
The weather folks knew it was mostly fake news and was just going to be rain storms.
Yet they did it anyways…ratings, ratings, ratings…and it worked.
I was told years ago that big cities like ours – especially like downtown, the Plaza and most of O.P. really can’t have tornado’s because the cars and carbon emissions from homes, buildings, stores kill the funnel clouds and force tornados away so they can’t touch down.
Want evidence?
We’ve not had any tornados hit any major city in KC, ever!
Yes, years ago way out in the flat lands and farm areas because of lack of population.
There can be heavy rain, thunder, hail but a tornado? Highly unlikely.
And the weather geeks know it.
Still they cut loose with tornado warnings until we can get back to those snow and ice storm shows they love so dearly.
Of course when those don’t happen either, do we learn that it’s BS? Nope…fear always trumps logic.
So yes, the fake news warnings worsen an already sleepy nightlife here and costs the city millions of dollars in revenue, but oh well.
But don’t worry, the stations will show us tornados on the ground somewhere in trailer park land or Oklahoma or the flat lands of Kansas, but in our city nope.
So enjoy the show and cover your ears.
Weather hasn’t changed, only the reportage (climate change? Hong Kong Phooey!) Re: tornadoes, do recall the Ruskin Heights, Kansas City 1957 as well Topeka, Kansas 1966 atmospheric storms, latter memorable an then young Bill Kurtis (“For God’s sake, take cover”) on-air coverage WIBW-TV.
Reportage however has morphed catwalk – ‘maximas hoy’ (‘breezy today’ indeed) – eye candy a mini dress, compared Fred Broski KMBC-TV/others suit & tie forecasts, some 50 years ago late 1960’s. Makes one wistful the ‘duck & cover’ nuclear bomb warnings, shelters, food prepper’s… ditto the Chiefs, when they were Kings for a year (seems like only yesterday – 17,646 yesterdays be precise, ‘wait till next year’, part 2018, verse 49.)
Primitive technology to information age to age of distraction, era Cronkite’s demeanor and eyeglasses to leg show the FOX(y) network gams and glam. Yeah, I do miss/prefer the good old days when tornadoes, news AND bosoms were real.
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In closing CG, just saw your recent post re: your brother’s passing… words of course do not suffice, so, just offer the hope peace finds you timely, fullest extent possible.
“It’s all about the money, Jimmy. Get eyeballs on the tube and ear balls on the radio, because listenership goes way up when death and destruction come into play.”
Ya Think?
I’m sure all that reporting (local & natl) on the volcanic eruption in Hawaii is just for ratings since it so rarely happens.
Historic precedent or not, weather’s a big deal here this time of year and when your power goes out, you fear the worst.
Hawaii had nothing to do with this media effort…its not real that is…big dif…
katy horner appears to be coming back at 9. So we can expect more weather warning
havoc
The ratings earned during a major weather event return NO revenue to the stations. When they go wall to wall, very few if any commercials air during the event, and the ratings spike has little effect on the overall ratings for a station. So the dollars you missed are more important than the lives of those who were in the path of the storms?
Interesting that you are bitching about those bound by the license the government hands out to warn the populace of the danger potentially found in severe weather in the mid-west, and then you bitch about your loss of revenue. I can guarantee the money lost by the TV stations would more than buy everything you and your family own now and in the foreseeable future. If you don’t want bad weather to effect your income move to Hawaii………wait the “fake news” there deals with the earth being molten.
+1
CG just got clownsuited.
I see so all those snow storms and hours of telling us about them are for our own good,,,,hmmm