Sunday, September 25, 2005

Rita coverage

Since I haven't been able to go 30 minutes without seeing some sort of coverage over the hurricane, i might as well poke a little fun at it. First off, if anyone else was watching the Weather Channel coverage and DIDN'T get their "synthesized, probably written by a 23 yr. old UNT grad, trying to be dramatic" music stuck in their head, you are a better person than me. Second, seriously, standing out in the middle of a hurricane holding a microphone, while trying to tell everyone there is a hurricane....why do those people do that and why does anyone actually make them do it? Reporters standing out in terrible wind and rain explaining how bad it is and informing us that EVERYONE has evacuated. Are we just supposed to forget or not recognize that their dumb butts are still standing out there? I would have felt just fine and just as informed if they were telling us this from a newsroom or at least inside a building. I know that we need the camera coverage, but that could have been done from a safer location. I was seriously waiting for something like a car door or a grocery cart to just come flying by and take the reporter out. These people are braver than I am.

Friday, September 09, 2005

Oprah Show

Something was brought to my attention that I wanted to bring up. I knew of the episode of Oprah that was reuniting families of Hurricane Katrina. What was brought up was how all the people she had on there were physically attractive. There were not any people who were in completely torn up clothes and teeth missing. i know, with Oprah's people, they can make anyone attractive, but it was still interesting.