A big part of US news
covers misfortunes reported to encourage sympathy. Disasters are covered in a
way that seeks to program us to react emotionally in ways our puppet masters
demand. Reporters always ask “How do you feel?”
Disasters that are “successful” are those that are covered to become a
reality version of a soap opera. The stars of this melodrama are the volunteer
first responders who help those who did not evacuate.
The useful part of
disaster news is how to avoid it or prevent it or survive it. But Reporters
don’t interview the many residents who believe it was a mistake to live near
disaster-prone areas and have decided to move and relocate somewhere safe. But
that would not be good for business in these disaster-prone areas, so the media
doesn’t dare suggest that living on ocean-front property in the hurricane belt
is unwise.
The “entitlement
generation” believes that people should be able to live in high risk areas and
never suffer a loss that is not reimbursed by the government. This is changing
and is becoming too expensive for the average family to live in these areas.
There is little useful
news about zoning that requires hurricane-proof building codes. There was a
brief mention of Apalachicola FL redesigning its electrical distribution to use
underground lines and hurricane-proof telephone poles to mitigate electricity
loss, but the media doesn’t follow these stories.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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