News Media Disappointed with Hurricane Earl

You could see it coming.  Not the hurricane, mind you, but the media's bloodthirsty anticipation of destruction!  For days before Earl passed harmlessly by the East Coast of the United States the media warned and warned again that it was going to be a big one.  Each time the winds increased, the media announced that the storm had been upgraded to a 2.... then a 3.... and then a 4!  The media seemed drunk with the power they had over the people.  The forced evacuations were but one example of the media's power and ability to control what was going on.

And then what happened.....?

Instead of ripping buildings apart and drowning hundreds with the giant storm surge, the hurricane passed harmlessly by the East Coast and dumped a bunch of rain.  The disappointed media quickly sank back into their holes.  They did not get to stand in the rain with their camera lights and their face getting beaten by the frozen droplets of 200 mph rain.  They had nothing to show for their efforts.  How very disappointed they were!

I was doing a Google Search this morning to find out about the aftermath of Hurricane Earl, but there is little that was written.  There was no story about how they had overestimated the hurricane or how the evacuations were a costly waste of time and money.  There was no story about the gross errors in their computer modeling, which by the way is similar to the computer model that they use to predict global warming.  

But what would you expect the media to do, after they did all they could to build it up and scare everyone to death and to force people to leave their homes and their belongings during the evacuations?  They will tell you that they did it for the public good and that they were just doing their job to keep everyone informed. 

What a bunch of hooey!