Fearcasting
Here in North Texas we are having our first brush with winter. Yesterday we even had an unexpected dusting of snow. Checking the official NOAA forecast it looked like another slight (30%) chance for snow later in the week. The local TV stations put the chance for snow at 50%. Is this just Fearcasting? Could the local media outlets make these statements just to pull in more advertising revenue?
This morning NOAA has dropped the chance of snow to 20% but the local weather outlets are still banging their drums trying to pull in viewers with their tales of up coming snow.
This begs the question, what else is hyped in the media for the sake of bigger profits? The old thought of "don't believe everything you hear" comes to mind.
Let's. see how this turns out later this week.
