come on, come on, come on and do it, come on come on come on and do what you do

[dragonlady7]

Can I cast a voodoo spell with my mind that would compel the people Z's waiting to hear from about the job to call him back?
er, e-mail?
Argh. Still.

He's toasting weenies. I am attempting to figure out how to cram this massive missive to Katy into an envelope. It is too long. It took me seven days to write it and an eighth to send it. I need to just mail things more often.

I have things to do today, things I don't want to do, things i've been putting off. Most likely I'll do them tomorrow.

Come on come on come on and email him already, it's like noon already, make up your minds and send him a damn job offer already. I'm not asking for much, am I?

Thbbbbt.

By the way, yesterday at work they had Fox News on all day with the hurricane coverage and they were humorously oversensationalizing it to the point where, independently, at several different points, different groups of travelers were performing parodies of the news coverage. I mean... Dennis wasn't that bad, it downgraded to a 2 before it even made landfall. It was like, if Channel 4 sent their news crews out to stand on the street in January: "Wow, guys, it's totally snowing out here. Look at -- look at that! It's snowing so hard, my hat is like all white now!" "Gosh, you look cold. Is it cold out there? Can you give our viewers a sense of how cold it is? Because you look really cold." "Well, that's because I'm secretly not wearing any pants, to dramatize the effect." "Oh wow. You're risking your life for your journalism." "I know, I should get a fucking medal."

So there's Geraldo, all windblown and "Oh my God it's raining!" and there's another correspondent just down the block, not nearly so windblown and observing mildly "yeah, it's, ah, it's, well, there's like wind, and also rain, which is just terrifying because moisture and wind together can make you really uncomfortable."...
What tools. It'd be funny if they didn't do it to every story, and if it weren't so often inflammatory when they did it.

Comments

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Believe me, you'd be a lot more interested in hurricane coverage if you lived in its path. A Category 2 is still a pretty good sized storm.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm with you on that, and even I was watching the coverage with some concern, but as it made landfall and halfway spent itself, the coverage just got ridiculous. By that point, there was no more real merit to tracking it or dispensing warnings, so they were pretty much stuck with just screwing around and exaggerating how bad it was for entertainment value, because there was almost nothing of import to tell people. I mean, sure, if there was a tornado or something popping up, or if something dramatic happened, but dramatic things failed to happen, so they resorted to putting Geraldo in a wind tunnel and talking about how brave he was. And having the dinging "Alert" thing and saying: "Fox news alert: There's a hurricane in Florida!"
Um, well, yes, yes there is. But they'd kinda said that already.
Having repetitive alerts kind of ruins the point. If the hurricane had spawned tornadoes, as they'd said it might, how would a casual viewer differentiate the warning noise for that one from yet another "Yup it's a hurricane OMG" alert?

So, in general, i don't disagree that a hurricane hit Florida and was newsworthy, but I do disagree with Fox's methods in general.

An amusing side note: Fox was still going on about how a Category 4 was so tremendous and huge (as it is) when a woman at the bar hung up her cellphone and said, "My cousin in Tampa says it's a Category 2 now." We watched for another hour before Fox saw fit to mention that it was now a 2. Oh yes, getting the information to the people who needed it was obviously their primary objective, sure.