Yay for rain, but…

 

… boo for ABC News! Holy smokes. I taped a show I was really interested in watching tonight, and I found that I was becoming incredibly frustrated with this station the longer I watched. While the show was running, they would constantly cut to “Weather Updates.” Not the kind where the update scrolls on the bottom of the screen, not the kind that take up a portion of the screen, not even the kind that leave the show running in a little box in the corner. A full-blown, cut-away kind of weather update. I understand that it was raining, and yes the weather was more severe than normal (though it wasn’t as if a hurricane was coming) – in some areas. But you know what I noticed? They cut to the updates that were so important to the safety of the viewers only during the show, never during the commercials. As long as they made their money, the safety of the viewers was important. Just not important enough to keep the viewers and lose some cash. Too bad the weather didn’t get severe during the 10,000BC trailer I’ve seen about a zillion times tonight, they might have saved me from an overplayed commercial.

I guess I’ve been saying for a long time how the media is just out for your money (and sometimes your soul). Yet another example of the misleading media attempting to appear concerned about the viewers, when really it all comes down to their own profits and pocketbooks.

~ by Erica Ares on February 26, 2008.