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If nothings changed you wouldn't expect it to be on the news would you? Power being restored might be newsworthy, but something today being in the same situatio
by flukus 9y ago
If nothings changed you wouldn't expect it to be on the news would you? Power being restored might be newsworthy, but something today being in the same situation as yesterday isn't.
- emodendroket 9y agoI'd say "United States region of 3.5 million without power for over a week, and residents are resorting to getting water from a creek" is actually a newsworthy story. We got endless updates about what Donald Trump thinks about the NFL and the anthem despite little significant change there.
- jsjohnst 9y agoLower and middle Manhattan was without power for nearly a week following Hurricane Sandy. Not saying that to justify the lack of news coverage (quite the opposite), just saying that disasters happen, especially following a hurricane.
- objectivetruth 9y agoAnd pretty sure we all heard about that exhaustively :-)
- emodendroket 9y agoWe heard a lot more about Sandy, and, besides that, although I lived through it and it sucked (especially being in a more rural-ish part of Connecticut that was not a priority for power restoration... though we were better off in other ways than parts of New York I guess) we weren't experiencing these kinds of fuel shortages or resorting to taking a bucket to a creek to get drinking water.
- sangnoir 9y ago> Power being restored might be newsworthy, but something today being in the same situation as yesterday isn't That did not prevent non-stop, blanket coverage of the missing Malaysia flight for weeks