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Good morning! Everyone's dead except you!
I woke up this morning to a lovely story on Morning Edition that went along the lines of:
"The morning commute will be slowed on the East Coast this morning, due to snowstorms that killed twenty or so people in the Midwest."
What is a bigger news story here? Midwesterners killed or East Coasters inconvenienced? Why are the deaths of Midwesterners simply a footnote to a story about East Coast traffic? Oh America... your coastcentric media coverage is pathetic and disgusting!
srah - Friday, 9 December 2005 - 8:02 AM
Tags: united states, weather
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Comments (3)
Aunt Pam - December 10, 2005 - 7:52 AM - ℓ
Don't you know that outside of NYC nothing else exists?? And when snow hits it's devastating? With 7 million people and 17 million vehicles in 30 square miles, there isn't any place to put snow. With all the movers and shakers living bilaterally on our coast clogged shores, what happens there is way more important than what happens in the midwest. We must know our place. ;)
katie - December 10, 2005 - 9:08 AM - ℓ
To East Coasters, this type of weather is nothing unusual, and therefore nothing that people should be going out and doing stupid things and dying in. Ergo, it is only a mere inconvenience.
The apocalypse hit DC yesterday. We got maybe 2 inches of snow, tops, and it was mostly melted by morning. (Ooh, alliteration!) Somehow snow is like a Death Star that destroys humans' ability to operate heavy machinery. There were burning busses and cars going off the roads left and right. The metro busses/trains were on a snow schedule, which basically consisted of driving .2 miles an hour - even in the subway tunnels!
Here, here! Good show....