MEDIA DISASTER
One of the major–and most legitimate–complaints about local TV news is its insistence upon creating hysteria over a two inch snowfall.
Trust me. It embarrasses the meteorologists who are too often encouraged to emphasize the worst possible scenario and it embarrasses the anchors who have to lead their newscasts with a story about “possible accumulation.”
That same mentality exists at the network level. And we may have seen it during the oil spill.
It was a disaster and whether it was hyped or not–it still had a life changing effect on a lot of people. But, as bad as it was, it becomes more apparent every day that the national media exagerated the effects of the oil spill.
