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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
It's been the same forever.
Part of that is the media and its hype.
Part of that is also if it's not taken seriously and it's serious a lot of people will die.
There isn't always some nefarious agenda.
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Yeah, shit like that's impossible to report.....
hey, there's this 0.0025% chance something bad will happen, but if it happens, IT'S REALLY ****ING BAD.
And people take the media as fake hype and false alarms until Katrina happens, and you have that much more money poured into saving people who didn't think it was a big deal because it's never been THAT big of a deal before. It's more about the burden of the masses sticking around than the chance you'll actually die, too, so people don't care as much.
Same with KC and tornado warnings... Katie Horner was notorious for freaking out and yelling at viewers to take cover, but that one time that tornado hits your neighborhood and you're on the porch watching instead of in your basement, you could be dead.
And sure, you also have the reporters who are standing outside in the middle of hurricanes and what not, which is obviously for ratings just as much as anything.