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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 410369" data-attributes="member: 27">Well the random thing I&#039;m hating on right now is the local media over-dramatizing the weather/Helene situation.&nbsp; Other than some medium-high winds there has been little to no newsworthy stories/footage where they&#039;re broadcasting from (where I&#039;m watching)....but local reporters out in the field are doing their level-best to drum up &quot;action&quot; as best they can.They have young, eager reporters out doing entire two-minute segments on a neighborhood power outage (they said 2000 residents) that had already been repaired. One young girl was selling &quot;local flooding&quot; of a street where you could see cars driving along with water not even half up the wheels.&nbsp; A reporter being driven in a car on I95 was going on about how it had been raining &quot;really hard&quot; ten minutes before, but now we see nothing outside the windows as he reports.&nbsp; We just have to trust him, doggone it, that it was really really scary....recently.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know their bosses probably ordered them to go out and get a story, but if there&#039;s nothing to report....just have them come back to the studio.&nbsp; It borders on gaslighting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 410369, member: 27"] Well the random thing I'm hating on right now is the local media over-dramatizing the weather/Helene situation. Other than some medium-high winds there has been little to no newsworthy stories/footage where they're broadcasting from (where I'm watching)....but local reporters out in the field are doing their level-best to drum up "action" as best they can. They have young, eager reporters out doing entire two-minute segments on a neighborhood power outage (they said 2000 residents) [I]that had already been repaired[/I]. One young girl was selling "local flooding" of a street where you could see cars driving along with water not even half up the wheels. A reporter being driven in a car on I95 was going on about how it had been raining "really hard" ten minutes before, but now we see nothing outside the windows as he reports. We just have to trust him, doggone it, that it was [I]really really scary[/I]....recently. I know their bosses probably ordered them to go out and get a story, but if there's nothing to report....just have them come back to the studio. It borders on gaslighting. [/QUOTE]

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