It’s been a very bad year for tornadoes, and nothing this year can compare to the devastation in Joplin, Missouri, an event that was covered extensively by the national press as it was happening. But on June 1, 2011, almost the entire East Coast of the U.S. was under a tornado watch, including NYC and Boston. Tornadoes are not like earthquakes, in that they can be seen forming in advance on Doppler radar. While a tornado was forming over Massachusetts, CNN was busy airing an “exclusive interview” with Anthony Weiner, complete with an 8×10 photo of him in his underwear.
Wolf Blitzer was in New York with Representative Weiner, while in the Atlanta studios of CNN their very competent meteorologist, Chad Meyers, was being bumped. It’s a sign of the mission at CNN that they didn’t break into the interview to warn the people of Springfield, Massachusetts when they could have. The deaths of four people in Massachusetts put into perspective the kind of scandal that the national news focuses on at the expense of important stories every day. If only they had treated the Iraq war with such vigor, sarcasm and righteous doubt. After the Press, a fine news/journalism/media criticism site based in Kingston NY, has got the goods:
After the Press CNN Weiner Tornado video on YouTube
After the Press CNN Weiner Tornado video on After the Press website
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