4. What about the Guy Crouching by the Garbage Can?
Somehow it detracts from the gravity of some of these situations when you see news folk out there hiding behind garbage cans in 100 mph wind, pointing out how the building they are standing by is getting torn appart bit by bit by mother nature's temper tantrum and all the rest of those bad scenes, as some hapless editor checks her email and sends out for sushi.
6. What, you want them to act smarter than they do at all other times?
My favorite moment of Katrina reporting was watching Aaron Brown show highlight clips of storm coverage, of reporters being blown around and battered by debris, and describing their destroyed vehicles. After the segment he concluded that the clips were proof that they didn't screen reporters for common sense.
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