I have to say, I'm pretty proud and happy right now with the local media covering the Joplin tornado and damage, for what it's worth.
They showed the front page of The Star last evening on MSNBC's "Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell". Then, yesterday, the national feed of NPR aired local sage Frank Morris of KCUR, telling of the situation there. It's always great to hear Mr. Morris--or some other local reporter, of course--on the national feed.
It's wonderful to have the local news stations actually reporting on hard news, too, rather than fluff stories no one cares about, frankly. KCTV-5's Brad Stephens seemed to beat everyone down there with his on site reporting, if what I saw last evening was representative of the coverage.
Then check this out, yesterday the Hollywood Reporter put this up on their site telling of the national coverage the story will get:
I hope Reading, Kan. doesn't get lost in this story and coverage.
It's clearly a horrible situation down there and the news started doing a great service covering the story virtually immediately, telling people what happened, of course, but more than that, telling that going there to help would be a bad idea unless you were part of an organized group, etc. Then, additionally, the fund-raising and blood drives have been big, plentiful and seemingly successful, all three.
It's heartening to see us all come together like this in time of such a horrific tragedy.
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