Media criticCNN correspondent Nick Watt was reporting on Hurricane Florence on Friday morning from North Myrtle Beach, S.C., when he captured the hypocrisy that TV networks display when it comes to storm coverage. They’ll be the first ones to hype the evacuation orders, to play up the colossal potential of the arriving tempest, to shake their heads at holdouts. And then they stick around to face down the wind and the rain. Dude from the weather channel bracing for his life, as 2 dudes just stroll past. ET this morning and is undoubtedly exhausted.”The Erik Wemple Blog has followed up with this question to the Weather Channel: “Why was he on the grass, then?

Source: Washington Post September 15, 2018 00:50 UTC