One of the continuing themes on this blog is how USELESS some of our local news outlets are in terms of telling us what is really going on in this state. There was no better evidence of it that what passed for TV "news" this morning in the Piedmont Triad.
This morning, there was next-to-nothing about the multiple paths of death & destruction left behind in the wake of an outbreak of tornadoes in Eastern North Carolina, before the talking heads went on to pontificate on sleeping air traffic controllers. It was as if nothing existed east of Raleigh.
I wish I could pick up WNCT (Greenville) of WITN (Little Washington) here. Even WRAL with its primary focus on Raleigh, has acknowledged that the folks down East got the worst of it - particularly in Bertie County.
Yes, tornadoes skirted around our capital city yesterday (more than one person in my circle has remarked that it's a shame the legislative building was left unscathed), and Sanford took a very nasty swipe (the Governor will be there later today to survey the damage).
But there are tiny towns in Eastern North Carolina that are quite literally not there anymore. People impaled in trees. Bodies stacked in morgues.
WHERE are the journalists charged with telling us what is going on - so we can get help to those who need it most? Why is the focus here only about what lazy reporters can access by Interstate?
Afternoon Update: From WITN (Washington, N.C.) TV, Amateur video of one of the tornadoes that touched down in Greene County:
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