The weatherman exaggerates, the hard news guy understates

[KurtNYC]

The weatherman wheels out things like wind chill factors and heat index to push numbers even further to the extreme. If a day has a 20% chance of rain, the whole day gets a graphic with a cloud and a big old rain drop.

Meanwhile the hard news guy is still saying "Iraq is on the brink of civil war." What if these two approaches were switched.....I suddenly feel very sleepy but I wonder what the news would look like then....Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

(lap to dream sequence)

Weatherguy: "...and New Orleans is back to normal after that little rainstorm they had last year. That rainstorm was on the brink of being a hurricane. Now let's go back over to Steve with a review of the headlines."

Hard News guy: "World War IV continues along the Lebanon Israeli border today even as WWIII rages on in Iraq. The pervasive Civil War in Iraq enters its 3rd year with no let up in sight. And when you add in the religous heat factor, that Civil War registers just above Armagedon on the war scale."

"In other news, more confirmation that global warming is going to cook us all like broccoli in a steamer basket so you may want to modify those plans for retirement in Florida. And Floyd Landis had so much testosterone in his blood stream that he has hair growing on in the inside of his eyelids."

[UTUSN]

1. & those 2 jobs are the only ones where daily screw-ups don't get fired n/t

[zanne]

2. Oh, the weather hype!

Weathermen LOVE storms. They like to start talking about them 4-5 days before they get here, getting more hysterical every day. Especially snow storms. Nine times out of ten, on the day of the dreaded "killer" storm, we get an inch or two of snow. So, it's time to put away the lanterns, candles and bottled water that we prepared waiting for this monster and watch the weatherman say "oops".