Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Another guess.
Because we get less and less of our news from MSM and if it is not being covered on social media sites there are a lot of people not seeing it. If cell service is down and a lack of power there are fewer non traditional reporters that are reporting on it?
OP here. My issue is actually that social media seems much more informative about the scope of what is happening. It feels like WaPo and NY Times aren't fully conveying how catastrophic this is.
Anonymous wrote:These people wiped out by this flooding and landslides probably all voted for people who made environmental policy decisions that created storms like this in the first place. I have absolutely zero sympathy for their plight that they brought upon themselves. Anything that results in fewer trump votes in November is reason for joy.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It feels like this huge disaster is getting ignored. Entire communities have been destroyed. Some won't have water for a week. I see that WaPo.and NY Times are reporting on it but it's below the Middle East and the election and the focus on the deaths which present it as isolated issues.
Because it rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat for those hurricane prone areas. The government will spend billions to rebuild and then in five years another storm will come through and do blow it away again.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Another guess.
Because we get less and less of our news from MSM and if it is not being covered on social media sites there are a lot of people not seeing it. If cell service is down and a lack of power there are fewer non traditional reporters that are reporting on it?
OP here. My issue is actually that social media seems much more informative about the scope of what is happening. It feels like WaPo and NY Times aren't fully conveying how catastrophic this is.
Anonymous wrote:I reject the entire premise of the thread. It’s being covered extensively.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Another guess.
Because we get less and less of our news from MSM and if it is not being covered on social media sites there are a lot of people not seeing it. If cell service is down and a lack of power there are fewer non traditional reporters that are reporting on it?
OP here. My issue is actually that social media seems much more informative about the scope of what is happening. It feels like WaPo and NY Times aren't fully conveying how catastrophic this is.
Anonymous wrote:It feels like this huge disaster is getting ignored. Entire communities have been destroyed. Some won't have water for a week. I see that WaPo.and NY Times are reporting on it but it's below the Middle East and the election and the focus on the deaths which present it as isolated issues.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It feels like this huge disaster is getting ignored. Entire communities have been destroyed. Some won't have water for a week. I see that WaPo.and NY Times are reporting on it but it's below the Middle East and the election and the focus on the deaths which present it as isolated issues.
Because it rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat for those hurricane prone areas. The government will spend billions to rebuild and then in five years another storm will come through and do blow it away again.