I hate NYcentric media

[Rusty Shackleford]

I hate how New York centric the national media is. Nothing is news until it happens in NY, it seems. For example, 20,000 customers without power in NY is a main headline on cnn.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/22/ny.blackouts.ap/index.html

Meanwhile, in my hometown of St. Louis, hardly a widespot-in-the-road town by the way, more than 500,000 people have lost power after two bad-ass storms in two days. Any mention on any national news? I saw one story on yahoo.com, and that was it. Now maybe I've missed some of the national stories, but I know that if the same thing happened in NYC (and by that, I mean if a storm knocked out power to 500,000 people, let alone the same percentage of people) it would lead the national news for a week.

Just like how when a snowstorm makes its way across the country, dumping two feet of snow on everyone, it doesn't make a peep nationally until it hits NYC.

Rant over.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Funny, I'm in NYC, and I have seen plenty about the St. Louis storms and power outages. It certainly made the news here.

 

[Cadet]

I can't speak to this particular rant, but I hate the mindset that nothing outside of NYC matters, unless maybe it happens in LA.

 

[buckweaver]

I can't speak to this particular rant, but I hate the mindset that nothing outside of NYC matters, unless maybe it happens in LA.

Actually, we don't care about anything outside of L.A., either. The difference is, we're three hours behind so everybody else is asleep when **** happens out here.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Things that happen in NY get more coverage because most major media is in NY. So the people handling the coverage are usually personally affected, plus they can pretty much walk outside and cover the story.

Way of the world.

 

[Double J]

Substitute "Toronto" for "NY" and you'll have an idea of what it's like for the 25 million Canadians who don't live in the CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

You mean to tell me there was a power outage in St. Louis?

 

[slappy4428]

You mean to tell me there was a power outage in St. Louis?

St. Where?

 

[patchs]

Substitute "Toronto" for "NY" and you'll have an idea of what it's like for the 25 million Canadians who don't live in the CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE.

You mean there's more to Canada than the area around the QEW?

 

[The Big Ragu]

Substitute "Toronto" for "NY" and you'll have an idea of what it's like for the 25 million Canadians who don't live in the CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE.

This is your problem, Double J. If you'd all learn how to spell center correctly, Toronto would cease to exist.

 

[SnoopyBoy]

I can't speak to this particular rant, but I hate the mindset that nothing outside of NYC matters, unless maybe it happens in LA.

Actually, we don't care about anything outside of L.A., either. The difference is, we're three hours behind so everybody else is asleep when **** happens out here.

I thought NY never slept.

 

[Rosie]

I'm guessing there hasn't been any national mention of the wildfire which has burned more than 6,000 acres in Northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, either.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/15101692.htm

 

[spup1122]

I can't speak to this particular rant, but I hate the mindset that nothing outside of NYC matters, unless maybe it happens in LA.

Actually, we don't care about anything outside of L.A., either. The difference is, we're three hours behind so everybody else is asleep when **** happens out here.

I thought NY never slept.

I thought that was Vegas or New Orleans...

 

[dooley_womack1]

I'm guessing there hasn't been any national mention of the wildfire which has burned more than 6,000 acres in Northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, either.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/15101692.htm

Isn't Minnesota all glaciers or something?

 

[Rosie]

I'm guessing there hasn't been any national mention of the wildfire which has burned more than 6,000 acres in Northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, either.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/15101692.htm

Isn't Minnesota all glaciers or something?

Not when last weekend saw highs of 105 and lows of 80. Makes it tough for glaciers to survive. :

 

[slappy4428]

I'm guessing there hasn't been any national mention of the wildfire which has burned more than 6,000 acres in Northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, either.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/15101692.htm

Isn't Minnesota all glaciers or something?

Not when last weekend saw highs of 105 and lows of 80. Makes it tough for glaciers to survive. :

So... Minnesota is the centre of all global warming??? [/double j]

 

[Rosie]

I'm guessing there hasn't been any national mention of the wildfire which has burned more than 6,000 acres in Northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, either.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/15101692.htm

Isn't Minnesota all glaciers or something?

Not when last weekend saw highs of 105 and lows of 80. Makes it tough for glaciers to survive. :

So... Minnesota is the centre of all global warming??? [/double j]

Ask me that again in January when it's 40 below and I have to let my vehicle run for a half hour before moving it.

 

[Batman]

Remember Tropical Storm Allison around 1998 or '99? Dumped about three feet of rain on Houston -- the fourth or fifth largest city in the country -- and brought near-Katrina level flooding to parts of the city. I think it warranted a 20-second brief on Headline News. Same thing happens in New York, we get the five-minute feature about the Fifth Avenue Can Man making arks out of Schlitz cans, the entire history of flooding in NYC, a 10-minute retrospective to the 1888 blizzard and the one-hour documentary on how global warming is to blame. And that's all in the first day.

 

[STLIrish]

While generally I agree with you - the NY-based national media make a huge deal about anything happening here and forget about the rest of the country - this time around the Queens blackout was oddly underplayed for days. It's been going on since Monday and I didn't hear about it until Thursday, and I live an hour from NYC. Didn't see full-out coverage in the papers until Saturday.
Had it been in Manhattan, now then it would have been all-blackout-all-the-time all week, but a couple of hundred thousand working class people in an outer borough? Eh.
I heard more about St. Louis, though maybe it caught my eye b/c I used to live there. That sounds horrible, and is no place to be w/out a/c this time of year.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

I just wish the media, particularly ESPN, would finally realize how important it is when the Yankees and Red Sox play. Especially if it's a series in April or May.