{"id":452,"date":"2005-08-30T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T16:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=452"},"modified":"2005-08-30T19:32:17","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T23:32:17","slug":"cnn-weather-reporter-goes-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"CNN Weather reporter goes nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noaanews.noaa.gov\/stories2005\/images\/dennis-07-10-2005-1915zb2.jpg\" alt=\"Katrina\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Katrina has caused vast, expensive and lasting devastation in its wake, and with that, one of the biggest real-life media dramas in US history.  Clearly, this kind of drama also produces lots and lots of ratings and web clicks for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=Katrina&#038;btnG=Search+News\">various news agencies that clamor to provide exclusive coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The result?  Long hours for reporters and meteorologists who must stay at their desks for extended periods, reporting, re-reporting and even re-re-reporting as new developments unfold.  And sometimes, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysite.verizon.net\/scaredpoet\/CNN_freakout_20050829.mpg\">tempers flare on the air as a result<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Media: <a href=\"http:\/\/mysite.verizon.net\/scaredpoet\/CNN_freakout_20050829.mpg\">CNN Weatherman freaks out<\/a>, 2.38MB MPG file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pressures of Hurrican Katrina causes a CNN correspondent to go ape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}