Snow Coverage Needs Embedded Reporting

I'm not sure what the reporting is like back on the East Coast, but here in Central Ohio you have the following constants:

1. One or more reporters will get on roads, regardless of the snow emergency levels, and drive around town doing reports about how you shouldn't be outside.
2. Weathermen will show lots of radar pictures. One of the lower tier guys will go outside and do various things to show the depth of the snow.
   
3. Some lowly reporter will get salt barn duty where they get to stand in front of the huge tent covering the supply of rock salt for the roads. Occasionally they talk to the communications person at ODOT or the city.

Last week, I was talking with some co-workers and we realized what was missing. Embedded reporters on the plows.

With all of the other useless crap they give us, why not stick some reporter on an actual truck and have them report via video phone like they did in Iraq. It would be brilliant mindless television. Imagine the conversations with each Mr. Plow. Imgaine the sight of them showing idiot drivers swirving out trying to pass the plow.

It would rank right up there with LA police chases in terms of entertainment. They might even be able to sell the footage to CNN and Fox News.

Here's hoping someone takes the plunge. It would be memorable.

Vick and Snow = Bad?

Is everyone forgetting where Vick played college ball? Virginia Tech is located in an area that is not warm in the winter. It's right in the Appalachian foothills and gets its fair share of snow.

I'm more concerned about his other teammates in the snow than I am for Vick. Same thing goes for McNabb, he may have played in a dome while in Syracuse, but he knows what cold is.

Neither of these guys should be impacted by the cold. And the announce teams will gush about how well they're doing...it's all crap. They should play well, expect them to play well, anything less is a poor performance with no excuses.

The Media and Iraq

A facinating read by a commander in Iraq currently involved in security operations in Iraq.

I take it with a grain of salt, as with anything at World Tribune, but if it's 50% accurate, it shows the major problem with our media reporting in general, and it has to do with what brings the ratings. It is scary that we can be so easily manipulated.

Rest assured, there are those who know that the media is reporting 99% of the bad things which take up 1% of the story and 1% of the good things that remain.

These elections are key. When they go off without major issues, the entire media will be scrambling to find out why they were a failure and attempt to drive that point home (very much like this "election fraud" in Ohio that wasn't). It will be interesting to observe.