2005-06-09 13:59 | fche blog enun-dorsals weather watching
Although less popular than CNN, I watch the weather channel/network all the time. But why?
It may be partly because
- the little pilot in me needs to be aware of nationwide weather, just in case of an emergency call-up to visit Whitehorse, Yukon
- it broadcasts a fundamentally technical matter, leaving no room for deliberate misleading or political bias, beyond the obligatory Hallelujah! when the capital is flooded with backed up sewer juice
- it tries to make an uncontrollable planet-scale phenomenon intelligible, instead of controllable scall-scale human-interest news mystifying
- down-to-earth charmers like Lila Feng (ok, many years ago), Chris St. Clair (a fellow pilot)