Hurricane!

The 21st named storm of the 2005 season, Hurricane Wilma.

In my half sleep this morning, I heard my local all-news station spend a lot of time flogging tropical storm/soon-to-be-hurricane Wilma. I was dismayed when I heard it would “threaten the Gulf coast”. I couldn’t believe what those poor people down there would have to endure–a third major storm. But there was a catch. When the news station cut away to the official messages from the National Hurricane Center, I heard the storm would graze the Gulf coast of Florida. While that’s not great news by any means, the story was clearly being positioned as a direct hit on the Louisiana/Texas area. I guess that will sell more papers and get more eyeballs, huh?

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