Propaganda?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070114/ap_on_re_us/winter_blast

Icy weather was due about three months ago. Why do we think this extraordinary? It's January and sixty degrees in Manhattan.

OK, I'm listening to the local news in New York. The weather people are telling right this instant that it's cold outside, that it looks like the warm streak (which has been going on since early November) is over. The back door of my apartment is wide open. It is about fifty degrees out and my wife is working in the backyard, and she's not even wearing a jacket.

Reepeat: the local weather reporter is claiming it cold outside. Exact phrase: "Well we're finally seeing some wintery weather."

Who is kidding who? I don't doubt it's snowing somewhere, but I have to listen to this nonsense here and wonder.

Answer 1

You just made my day.......I had to laugh out loud. Sounds like all the meteorologists are the same around the country. You make a good point.

Answer 2

Hey. We've had record breaking winds here at 110km. Over 3,000 trees in our Stanley Park that once stood tall have succumb to our great winds. Power outages and such. And not too long before that, our crazy rain caused a landslide into our water reservoir and we were on water boil for a while and had fights in the stores over water. It's sunny one day and snowing the next. It's damn cold outside right now. You can't predict the weather, it's in constant change.

Answer 3

Propaganda? Covering weather is now popaganda? jfc

prop·a·gan·da (prŏp'ə-găn'də) pronunciation
n.

1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.
3. Propaganda Roman Catholic Church. A division of the Roman Curia that has authority in the matter of preaching the gospel, of establishing the Church in non-Christian countries, and of administering Church missions in territories where there is no properly organized hierarchy.

Definitions can be helpful, try some; they're kept in a book.

Answer 4

No - I understand what you're getting at though... people don't want to accept that global warming is here and that it is real...

Those statistics are normal for a winter season but they are dramatizing it for the news...

Now whether they are sabotaging the idea that this has been the warmest winter in history is not clear... maybe... maybe not.

The fact is - you are right - this has been the warmest winter season on record for most of the country... we are only setting record highs now - not lows.

Answer 5

so reporting the news is propaganda now? When seven people die from icy weather that's kind of serious..