Now that hurricane season has begun and we have our first named storm, Alberto, how long will it be before we start seeing local television news reporters in slickers and sou’westers dragging camera crews to projected points of landfall? Too late! They’re already standing out there in the rain, reporting live to bring us the latest pictures of—stupid local news reporters standing in the rain.
Bless the beasts, the children, and the local news directors.
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I’m standing on the banks of Lake Monroe. The wind is blowing. The leaves on the trees are rustling. Ducks are swimming like nothing is unusual is happening despite the fact that Alberto is miles away. We could have at least two inches of rain before the day is out. Two inches! Keep your umbrellas handy. We’re not out of the woods yet.
Yeah, Todd, perhaps your news director is smart enough to see the value in producing “Storm Reporting: A Retrospective Look at Front-Line Hurricane Reportage.” It would probably sell a lot of Viagra. Of course, it would necessarily include the great Dan Rather Clinging to a Lamp Post scene, the gold standard of windblown live storm reports if not the seminal episode (no pun intended).
—TNT