donz5 <[email protected]> wrote: > (2) MSNBC wasn't much better -- too bright and brittle; ok for me for > political coverage but for this.
Having flipped around for much of Saturday night trying to find coverage I could settle into, I found MSNBC actually had the best organized anchor desk and the least hyperbolic coverage of the cable networks. From the wee hours of Sunday morning until noon Eastern, Alex Witt did a pretty amazing job of keeping coverage moving, didn't dwell on the hype, and asked reasonable questions of guests and reporters. MSNBC was also skeptical of NHC efforts to keep Irene a hurricane when their own TWC meteorologist was saying it's a tropical storm with a lot of storm surge. Bonus: MSNBC wasn't using a lightning-flash background for their coverage then way CNN was. It was darn near epilepsy inducing and designed to catch the eye or ratchet up tension, not inform or provide context. -- Ed Dravecky III http://www.fencon.org/ -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
