Thanks for the national perspective. Things are stabilizing a bit for the town where I live, but it is the nature of the beast that good news for us is bad news for someone else. We have had a lot of refugees in our town, and the stories they tell are harrowing. We are getting some cool and moist weather now, so that should help a bit, though the first is still only 5% contained last time I checked on that. We are still under Evacuation Alert, but I was able to go to sleep last night without worrying that I might wake up in an inferno, having slept through an Evac Notice.
I am still an incompetent Twitter user, and not always sure exactly what it is good for - but I have learned it is good for things like this. There has been some bad information that increased panic, but also a lot of good information we would have had trouble getting any other way - and the video from various Periscope feeds has been incredible. But for me this does not argue against formal journalism, but in favor of more of it. I don't want to have to rely only on social media for this; what I wish is that KCRW (NBC affiliate in Sacramento, which has done the best job I think of covering this story) has an ever larger budget and more staff to really cover this story, interview and vet the sources of twitter reports and video, and place it in some larger context (when we see dramatic video of one block on fire, does that mean the whole town is in flames (and sometimes this weekend it did) or does it mean just that block is? On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Doug Fields <[email protected]> wrote: > Same here in Tampa’s local news. They even differentiated between “The > Valley Fire” and the rest of the California wildfires in their story. > > > > Doug Fields > > Tampa, FL > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *JW > *Sent:* Monday, September 14, 2015 7:33 AM > *To:* tvornottv <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [TV orNotTV] Re: Valley Fire National Coverage > > > > > I write to inquire if this has been getting any coverage on the national > > news. > > It led both the CBS Morning News and Early Today this morning. > > Like everyone else here, I hope this all works out for you. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
