@stacey_campbell What LA news needs to do is to hire competent fire analysts to do a play by play. What they do, instead, is they have people who don't know anything about wildfires yammering. I turn off the volume, it's useless info.
I like to think of it as using your Lifestyle/Fashion reporter to call an NFL game. Would you do that? NO! That's what they are doing all the time.
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Coles Street Pothole π
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"As I understand it, Keith, water extinguishes fire. And I'm seeing a lot of fire here. So a question I have is, why aren't they putting more water on the fire? Let's go live to Brittany, who is standing in an intersection with a LOT of flashing lights behind her....."
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MsMerope
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the other day they were interviewing some so-called expert whose advice was along the lines of
"I wouldn't evacuate until the last minute, I would stay and keep hosing down my house."
There is so much wrong with that on so many levels.
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FinchHaven
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"What LA news needs to do is to hire competent fire analysts to do a play by play. What they do, instead, is they have people who don't know anything about wildfires yammering."
And here we are, the United States of America in 2025
"news" is entertainment
Viewer engagement. Capture the eyeballs, don't let go
Information? About what? Who cares about information or would even know it if they heard it
It's all about the legendary dopamine hit, which was the popular buzz-phrase back when I left Twitter and joined Mastodon
Titillation
It's what keeps viewers glued to the "app" on their phone
cc @stacey_campbell
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LA Plant Genetics
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Sadly, I know a lot of people obsessed with these broadcasts. It is like lifestyle news to them, obsessively checking for the lastest car chase, hoping to see a car they could never afford destroyed. Days of fires destroying other people's expensive property is what they want to see, commentary is irrelevant.
Thankfully, my neighbors have at least stopped shooting off fireworks for the moment (I am hoping permanently, but we will see).
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Tim Ward βπͺπΊπΆ #FBPE
In response to this post@ai6yr @stacey_campbell Do the relevant news channels actually *have* any climate change experts on the staff?
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https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
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