Comments on: Earth Status – Blowin’ – Blogging About Hurricane Irene http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/earth-status-blowin-blogging-about-hurricane-irene/ A Muse-ing Thu, 23 May 2013 13:14:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mikeeliasz http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/earth-status-blowin-blogging-about-hurricane-irene/#comment-174 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:48:56 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=1197#comment-174 Donna, I hope the media is being accurate. Otherwise, the next warning of impending disaster will NOT be heeded and thus cause injury to far more people than over-hyping a storm for ratings. I still remember hurricane HUGO when it struck in Philly. So I will be comparing this storm to HUGO and gauging the over-hype on that basis.

Do News media conglomerates own supermarkets — if not then why not, you certainly cause more sales? Perhaps that would help to explain the phenomena of over-hype. Certainly it is to produce ratings but that strategy too will fail long term if people get a sense it should just ignore the media.

]]> By: Donna Pointkouski http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/earth-status-blowin-blogging-about-hurricane-irene/#comment-173 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:09:41 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=1197#comment-173 Well, I’m outside of Philly too. No rain. No wind at all. Lots of humidity though! I think the news media are making everyone panic. It is hard to believe such a huge storm is coming when it is so quiet outside. They say it should hit our area in the middle of tonight. Let’s see!

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