Is this NYC steam explosion really such a big deal that

MSNBC feels it needs to conduct non-stop live coverage?

I mean, not to downplay it, but who cares unless you live there?

I'm far more interested in watching Hardball to hear about the overnight session.

Instead, we get a bunch of babbling from reporters.

I get it. There was a steam explosion. Enough. :eyes:

by any means necessary.

Heck if corporate newscasters can't find something that suits their liking to report on then they will just make something up. After all, it's only there to sell advertisement anyway, anybody that thinks they might learn something important tuning into corporate news is obviously sleep walking

So says the bu$h regime playbook for terrorizing the American people.

:argh:

stations and get your non-stop coverage, right?

I live 3,000 miles away.

I want to watch Hardball, which is being preempted.

...hits Chicago, I'll let you know.

Agreed, it's a local thing.

Cheers

...how are they watching it?

Cheers

:crazy:

Go to a bar to watch tv, a department store? Give me a break!

:eyes:

Hey, didn't that kinda look like Iranian steam to you?

:rofl: :rofl:

all steamed up..... I wish I could vent, but I have to watch Hardball.

Rescue workers are at jeopardy when dealing with asbestos if they aren't given the proper protection.

The EPA is testing now for asbestos.

I think that when anything happens in DC, LA, or NYC, a lot of Americans care about it. (I'm watching local coverage, though.)

story, and one that dictates live coverage.

What I'm complaining about is the extended coverage.

Both CNN and Faux are not still live.

I don't know what else can be said from the scene.

After viewing a video tape of the explosion from her home, Christie Todd Whitman, gave the all clear. NY'ers are not in any danger of any harmful toxins spewing in the air, she was over heard saying, from unidentified sorces.

something to fill the time!

they had enough of the plane crash in Brazil

Not newsworthy enough for a national broadcast.

UNLESS they're trying to make some kind of "point".

Hicks.

So why is it on my news?

"When one is tired of mid-town Manhattan, one is tired of life."

It's not terrorism and there were, if any, only very minor injuries as far as anyone knows.

Midtown Manhattan has a great big hole now. Oddly enough, that actually affects people all over the world.

given enough live coverage in my opinion.

There's a hole in Manhattan.

What else to you need to know?

Obviously, the producers at CNN and Faux don't think there's anything else that warrants live coverage.

I find it interesting.

Local news is covering it, of course. Right now they have a "steam expert" on the line, if you can believe that.

Anyway, at least it was nothing serious. At the time, it was a little frightening because all you could hear from the higher floors was loud, constant rumbling coming from below, where Grand Central is, and a lot of deep, black smoke billowing out and people running away from the area. So people were pretty panicked at first, because it sounded like it could be concrete breaking down.

So yes. ;)

I know I was interested in seeing what was happening and I am here in Boston. Like most people around here I have friends that work there and it's good to catch the whole story and worry less.

Basically if you don't want to hear about it you can always change the channel.

air?

Do you have a figure for me?

Of course I can change the channel, but I'm missing out on a program I wanted to watch.

it wasn't a transformer explosion after all. I've been gathering all the electrical products in the house with transformer in them and putting them on the back porch, I figured the Iranians had figured the transformer out and were now going to come after us through them. my bad.

:rofl:

Nice one!

on the sidewalk. Since they've ruled out a terrorist act, this story deserves maybe a minute or two of coverage on the nightly news. It's just not a major national story.

;)

After people figure out it was too much pressure and nobody hurt intentionally then everyone goes back to their routine.

Grrrr....:banghead: I heard his show was going to be about the overnight session, too.

overnight session and the war.

:sarcasm:

:eyes:

This story has all the elements of an all day thing though. It has the words "explosion" and "New York" in the headline, and it has footage that they can run in a loop ad infinitum.

Just like when that one baseball player crashed his airplane. If it had been anywhere else in the country it would have been a two minute blip during commercials, but you throw those elements together and it trumps anything that happened anywhere else in the world.

but I was on the 10th floor in a building on 41st and Lex and it was really scary when it happened. God bless the NYC firemen. They are wonderful.

:pals:

Yes, I'm safe home now but it was freaky....I agree though that although it really is a major event, it is a local story and I don't know why there would be non-stop coverage all over the place...I understand the non-stop stuff on all my local stations but everywhere else...The media is crazy.

My fellow New Yorkers were cool though. Most were very clam. Only two people in my building freaking out a little and no one was thinking 'terror' when it happened either....

yeah that's how we usually react. The noise no doubt would've scared the hell out of me at first but then it would've been oh what the hell is it NOW. Glad you got home safe.

41st and Lexington is steps away from Grand Central Station, one of the major transport hubs for the NYC Metropolitan Area. Metro North commuter lines and NYC Subway lines have been disrupted, and it's uncertain how soon services, including water, will be restored, and there will in all likelihood be some business/employment disruptions, including low-paid service people whose livelihoods depend on the office workers in the area.

This isn't a little thing that'll be cleared up in a few hours and life will go back to normal that fast.

One person is dead, several injured; those numbers may change. There may have been absestos released in the steam cloud. A lot of unknowns at the moment; tomorrow may bring more details.

I was walking down Lexington and saw the explosion. It looked like a replay of 9/11, with thousands of people running away while the intense geyser of smoke and vapor erupted in the background. "Run!" people were screaming. "Run!" An older lady slipped and fell to the ground. I didn't want to be in the open air and slipped into a gym near Grand Central. The stream of people running out of Grand Central and away from the explosion continued. A voice came over the intercom, "We are evacuating this building" and sweats-clad patrons ran out of the gym.

I went back to work and watched as the plume of steam billowed up the side of the Chrysler Building, reaching its full height at times.

Later, when I went back home, I saw thousands of tourists, New Yorkers and media lining the streets, looking down towards the explosion.
There were dozens, perhaps hundreds, of emergency vehicles and police cars in the area.

Mayor Bloomberg has announced they are testing for asbestos. He seems far more transparent than Giuliani.

the live coverage.

Stay on the air for an hour.

I'm questioning the rationale of staying on the air for longer than that.

I live 3,000 miles away.

Everything that could be said about that breaking news story had been reported, IMO.

CNN and FOX were able to see that, and switched back to normal programming as I thought MSNBC should have done.

And who cares what Fox does, anyhow? :hi:

As for me, I called a sister who works in the area (she is home safe), then I watched the coverage (not on MSNBC) until the Mayor said his piece. I don't know if they covered much after that, and then Keith was on.

out that even it (the network of trying to scare people), didn't think the story was worth continuing the live coverage after every possible piece of news had been reported.

Anyway, yes, good point about KO! :hi:

Bush and his cronies in the media have to keep us all living in fear.

"OMG! An Explosion in NYC!!!!"

"Run!"

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I'm sorry, but this event scared the living hell out of the people who were there. Wherever you live, I hope you don't ever have to go through something like what happened today.

One heart attack, and everything else is cancelled.

This was thousands of people scared out of their minds, people crying, and a huge billow of smoke that might have contained asbestos saturating the area.

My God, you people are insensitive.