When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.
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But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.
I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.
Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.
Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.
Radio is the death and life of Africa.
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