Jim Cantore goes ape sh*t over thundersnow storm

Mr. Gregory said:
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I've always been a bit of a weather geek. Until recently, I used to watch The Weather Channel all the time, and Jim Cantore was my favorite dude on there. I gave up on them once they started naming winter storms and airing reality shows nonstop.
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They've cut back on the reality shows A LOT. Part of the agreement with DIRECTV, they have to have a certain number of hours of live programming every day.
 
What's the difference between a winter storm affecting 50 million people from New York through Boston and a winter storm affecting 50 million people from Arkansas through Maryland?

Obviously, none. But, The Weather Channel (a branch of NBC News) and CNN only care about Boston.

NBC News: Boston's News Leader.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
They've cut back on the reality shows A LOT. Part of the agreement with DIRECTV, they have to have a certain number of hours of live programming every day.
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Really? That's good to hear.

Now if we can just get them to stop naming winter storms, we'll be back in business. I won't hold my breath on that one, though.
 
People in NY and Boston have teeth?
People in Arkansas don't?
What'd I win?

Actually, this area has gotten measurable snow, including 2 blizzards, 6 times in the past 3 weeks. There's 3 more storms forecast that will deliver more snow coming week.
It's newsworthy just like night after night of wild fires out west or Texas droughts.
It is New England, snow and cold doesn't surprise anyone. However the amount of snow, 7 feet+ in Boston and the extremely cold temperatures, at or below 0° nights and only warming to the low teens in the day is.
I consider myself very fortunate that our wood pellet stove is keeping us warm. I pity those with electric heat.
 
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Bobw said:
People in NY and Boston have teeth?
People in Arkansas don't?
What'd I win?

Actually, this area has gotten measurable snow, including 2 blizzards, 6 times in the past 3 weeks. There's 3 more storms forecast that will deliver more snow coming week.
It's newsworthy just like night after night of wild fires out west or Texas droughts.
It is New England, snow and cold doesn't surprise anyone. However the amount of snow, 7 feet+ in Boston and the extremely cold temperatures, at or below 0° nights and only warming to the low teens in the day is.
I consider myself very fortunate that our wood pellet stove is keeping us warm. I pity those with electric heat.
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Nobody said it isn't newsworthy. I'm saying, the national media has decided severe weather events that don't happen in New York or Boston are no longer newsworthy.

Do we really need five reporters standing around Boston, every day, telling us that it's cold or snowing in Boston?

That said, it seems like, every year, the media is giving live, non-stop, wall-to-wall coverage of two or three "once in a lifetime", "never happened before", "will never happen again", "storm of the century" blizzards in Boston.

NBC News: Boston's News Leader
 
StandOnIt said:
really the tip of the iceberg, most TV shows and movies from the beginning are around a N.E. setting and standpoint. It doesn't bother me, but it is a different world from where I live.
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But it's hard for the national media to cover issues that are important to rural Americans or Americans in southern and western states or understand a suburban or rural culture if the don't get outside of New York or Boston, wouldn't you agree?
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
But it's hard for the national media to cover issues that are important to rural Americans or Americans in southern and western states or understand a suburban or rural culture if the don't get outside of New York or Boston, wouldn't you agree?
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yep I laugh a lot about what they think is important, but I also understand that there is a corridor from around D.C. up that is stacked with population, also the Great Lakes and the Eastern seaboard, that's where there is the most people. Can't have snow around the Great Lakes, it has to be lake effect snow now from whoever, Bob, Joe. Same thing around here, can't be weather center, has to be storm center, or in Fox's case, FOX severe storm center Fox this Fox that.
 
Honestly, I think it's a reaction for attention at this point. I mean, it's happened countless times to him and it's not really an uncommon occurrence. Eventually, you have to stop getting excited about it and I think he's past that point. He's just like "I'm going to go crazy, then I'm going to watch all these news sites show my video."
 
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