09-12-2020, 12:18 PM
(09-12-2020, 11:44 AM)tvguy Wrote:(09-12-2020, 11:23 AM)Cuzz Wrote:(09-12-2020, 10:08 AM)tvguy Wrote:(09-11-2020, 07:46 PM)Juniper Wrote:(09-11-2020, 05:02 PM)tvguy Wrote: NO ONE was in charge. Someone should have been on TV giving out all the info there was as well as trying to answer questions.
And i don't mean out local news people.
And now, the media is having a virtual orgy of reporting. Picking over the bones. Where WERE they when this was going down?? They were eerily quiet, even into the late evening...nothing new was reported. Knowing where you (meaning me) was at with the evactuation was a crap shoot.
Yes but what I'm saying is it's not really the medias job to inform us about everything. That should be someones job in emergency management.
It's funny that we have been told over and over what WE need to do as far as being prepared. And now when something happens we have been warned about or government dropped the ball.
I think it's "emergency management's" job in this case to source the information, as you say. But media (news programs) claim they inform/report "news" so they should be doing a much better job then they have been lately.
I just finally heard on the news last night that the Almeda fire is still burning. I've been listening for that for two days and they hadn't said a word.
I agree completely on your last point.
As a last point, I realize we have a lot going on locally but in my search for information on Medford's fire situation I discovered all the other Oregon/PNW fires happening simultaneously that weren't mentioned on the news either. Actually, the national outlets were more helpful then the locals, and they were pretty thin on their reporting as usual too.
"I just finally heard on the news last night that the Almeda fire is still burning"
I think it's just that things are still smoldering.
That's what I was guessing but they said it was only 50% contained, so that confused me some. You could still be right though.