Re: Major Power Outage

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 14 Aug 2003 at 17:13, Dan Billings wrote:

> The coverage of the power outage is interesting.  WMTW went to continuing
> coverage from ABC just after 4:30.  WCSH and WGME are now doing their
> usual 5 PM newscasts with the usual features and commercials.  I guess
> they decided that it was more important to get those local ad dollars than
> to keep people up to date on a story effecting a huge portion of our
> country. It seems to me that this is a story worthy of continuing
> coverage, at least until it is clear what is happening.   Am I wrong?

I think too many things get continuing coverage.  A lot of continuing coverage consists of 
endless repetition of a few facts, interspersed with a lot of uninformed conjecture and filler.  
Meanwhile, the news of the rest of the world gets ignored.

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