Hype-i-cane 0

Will Bunch wonders whether the media, and particularly the Weather Channel, over-hyped hurricane Irene.

Unnecessary question.

Of course they did.

They over-hype an April shower.

That’s one reason I don’t watch television news, even from “responsible” (that is, non-Fox) sources.

Also, isn’t “over-hype” redundant?

In reality world, it’s raining really hard right now, but reports are that wind speeds have dropped significantly in the eye, which is still hours away. There have been spotty power outages from downed trees, and the power here at PVF HQ has blinked twice.

Afterthought:

This doesn’t mean it’s not a big storm that persons should prepare for, but, really, the limit on “storm of the century” is one per century.

Ex Post Afterthought:

Speaking of hype, all the television stations are broadcasting pictures of reporters standing in the rain, so we’ll know that it is raining.

Even the NPR news and information outlet is piping the audio of one of the local television stations, so that public radio listeners will know that TV reporters don’t know to come in out of the rain.

Pah!