Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Weather You Like it Or Not

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I'll stick my neck out and say that the Yahoo news feed includes a 'breakfast show host interrupts the program to announce xxxxxx' type of story every single day.  There's 2 aspects of this 'news' item that I can't quite fathom 1) why is it even worth mentioning? and 2) who gives a monkeys about it?  It is surely part of a live 'magazine' program to cover new news stories, and if they do, why on earth would anyone else need to know that the announcement happened?  It's a shame they have to lower themselves to report these sort of things as they endeavor to make us click and earn them some commission.

It's the same with weather items.  I read somewhere that one news desk has a target of one weather related story every day.  This will be because we (you and I) have a built in need to know anything about the weather.     

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