HBO @ Noon: Too Much Weather Coverage?
So er, day 4 of snow coverage comes along and the result is what assistant city editor Dan Hansen calls a “snorgy” in the news section: An unusual amount of weather coverage (Coverage! Weather! Journalists! or as Steve Smith described it, “We tell people what we know when we snow it”). Was it too much? “Don’t take the high road and pretend you don’t care [about weather] because you’re a journalist,” senior editor Carla Savalli said when one reporter called the snow coverage overdone/ Thuy Nguyen , Daily Briefing. More here.
Question: Is there such a thing as too much news coverage during a continuous snowfall like the one we’re having?
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