The Wilma hurricane on american/british medias

[Chrysalid]

I've been reading through several online news services for few days now, to keep myself updated on latest news concerning the Wilma hurricane and its progress. And I noticed something:

Facts: the storm arrived to Mexico and completely erased one city, badly flooded another and drove 500 000 people into exodus. Now if anyone else noticed, this is was not worthy of "Breaking news" neither at CNN or BBC, only thing mentioned there was a small "Hurricane hits Mexico" thing and the rest of the page was reserved for the description on when the storm will hit the US.

Now the storm has arrived there, and it's breaking news. I find this quite weird, but not unexpected: after all, Mexico is the "America's back yard."

What do you think of this?

 

[Kamikazie]

well considering that it hovered in Mexico for a day, and was a Cat 5 (worst as they can get), and is going to speed right past florida (and is 2 Catagorys below what it was)...

 

[Icarusintel]

here's an idea - stop watching the news

 

[clarky003]

yes, stop watching it and go visit the hurricane epicentre to get the inside story.

 

[Insano]

Yeah, and ask it when HL3 will be released. Hurricane epicentres never lie.

 

[Direwolf]

Had a front page article in our paper here, don't know about anywhere else.

 

[Bait]

What's a mexico?

 

[DeusExMachina]

What's a mexico?

Its where the Buffalo roam.

 

[dream431ca]

Arrogance is fun.

 

[French Ninja]

I dont know what CNN you were watching but it was either yesterday or the day before yesterday where I watched 3 hours of hot Mexico on hurricane action.

 

[DeusExMachina]

I dont know what CNN you were watching but it was either yesterday or the day before yesterday where I watched 3 hours of hot Mexico on hurricane action.

Usually gotta pay double for that kind of action.

 

[Milkman]

I've been reading through several online news services for few days now, to keep myself updated on latest news concerning the Wilma hurricane and its progress. And I noticed something:

Facts: the storm arrived to Mexico and completely erased one city, badly flooded another and drove 500 000 people into exodus. Now if anyone else noticed, this is was not worthy of "Breaking news" neither at CNN or BBC, only thing mentioned there was a small "Hurricane hits Mexico" thing and the rest of the page was reserved for the description on when the storm will hit the US.

Now the storm has arrived there, and it's breaking news. I find this quite weird, but not unexpected: after all, Mexico is the "America's back yard."

What do you think of this?

I read in the excellent book (America: The Book) that media bias goes like this:

1 american = 500 drowned bangladeshians = 12000 massacred africans

and so on, well it was something like that.

 

[Ennui]

shit, the hurricane's been all over the news for like a week

 

[Kamikazie]

and its coming your way ennui...so watch out man

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Um it's been all over the news here so.. I'm not sure. Try different outlets?

 

[Kamikazie]

what is so ****ing hilarious is that is was only a 3!! there have been way stronger hurricanes hit florida and not get that much attention, i think it got so much attention because it was the first hurricane to actually go through florida this season...

 

[Flyingdebris]

Man, i sat through that hurricane, and let me tell you, that rocked in an extreme manner.

My house was covered in shutters exept for a small sliver of door and glass. Through that i could see the winds blasting outside until i got bored and went to sleep. Later when i woke up i found the fence in my backyard flattened, several electricity poles knocked down, stop signs bent or gone, and this entire forested area near my house uprooted/stripped bare. I found a burgerking sign half a block away from the BK in someone's yard. Awesome.