Isnt it the Law for TV stations to ?

[booster11373]

<p>Aren't TV stations main task to serve the public? Tropical storm Ernesto is currently in my neck of the woods and all the local stations are displaying tomorrow's school closings and delays using a crawl along the bottom of the screen except and this bugs me because my school was just about to be listed when they cut to commercial and the crawl was removed. WTF.</p><p>Is there main job to serve the public wouldn't that be very important during dangerous weather. Wouldn't keeping us updated at all times meet that requirement. Cant let anything happen to our precious commercial overlords but we will edit the shit out of movies and put all sorts of distractions on your screen to promote other crap just not during commercials but now I'm ranting</p><p>any thought?</p>

[SinA]

<p>too has&nbsp;two letter <font size="7">O</font>s</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>and yes</p>

[booster11373]

<strong>SinA</strong> wrote:<br /><p>too has&nbsp;two letter <font size="7">O</font>s</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>and yes</p><p>while that does count as a thought......</p>

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>Wouldn't that info be on the internet?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They are serving the public, just keep watching, and it'll come up again.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

Stop being selfish....just go to school and try to learn something instead of trying to play hookey!!!!!!<br />

[booster11373]

<strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Wouldn't that info be on the internet?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They are serving the public, just keep watching, and it'll come up again.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>granted most have cable and Internet but what about those who dont?</p>

[sailor]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Wouldn't that info be on the internet?</p><p> </p><p>They are serving the public, just keep watching, and it'll come up again.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">yeah, plus you said the info you were looking for was the NEXT day's school closings, so it's not like it was terribly urgent that you get the news right away.&nbsp; if the info were more time sensitive, you'd have a better case.</font> <br /></p>

[SatCam]

this bugs me because my school was just about to be listed when they cut to commercial and the crawl was removed. WTF.

If you know your school was going to be listed, then why were you watching?

[booster11373]

<strong>SatCam</strong> wrote:<br />this bugs me because my school was just about to be listed when they cut to commercial and the crawl was removed. WTF. If you know your school was going to be listed, then why were you watching? <p>to see if it would be closed or just delayed</p>

[cougarjake13]

<p>i think tv's main job is to sell advertising and scare us all into buying crap we dont need</p><p>living in tampa, they originally had ernesto coming right at us and after it started moving east and was no longer slated to hit tampa, all the weatermen were still hyping up the worry machine like they had a financial interest in people going out and buying supplies, we were getting ernesto updates evry ten minutes and sometimes a little box in the right hand corner of the screen telling us what ernesto was doing</p><p>fucking greedy bastards</p>

[ChimneyFish]

<p><strong><em><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" size="2">I just got back from the Outer Banks yesterday.</font></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><font face="Georgia" size="2">The&nbsp;terror machine had my aunt so riled up, she was trying to get us to leave.</font></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><font face="Georgia" size="2">My first experience in winds like that. Weird thing, when you can feel the entire house move.</font></em></strong></p>