Worry for us?

So the past few posts have had more of a political agenda I suppose...but this one is aimed at the media...specifically...the Northeast Media(New York, Philly, DC, etc...). So yesterday...there were a few earthquakes in the country. 2(I believe, but possibly 3) in Trinidad, CO, and Golden, CO, and 1 in Virginia. Now, before the one in Virginia happened, the two in Colorado were big news seeing as, any earthquakes NOT on the San Andreas are typically newsworthy. But the second the Northeast earthquake hit, Colorado became not only unimportant, but it was almost as if no one even knew they occurred. I mean hello? Yeah, it's crazy that there was a sizable earthquake in Virginia...but what about the fact that there were at least 3 sizable earthquakes in different parts of the country within an 8 hour period??? I think  THAT is the newsworthy story to follow. What does this say to us? Anything that happens in the NE is more important because that is where the main media hub is?

Lets take another example. There is currently a Category 3, possibly soon to be 4, hurricane headed up the east coast. So for the next week at least, 80% of the national news coverage is going to be, "Look at as evacuate" and "Worry for us, what are we going to do?" Now granted, I am from Pennsylvania, and so I will have some degree of worry for my family and friends...but do I think it is a bigger story and warranting more attention than any number of storms that hit the gulf coast EVERY year? No. When Katrina hit the coast, I had just started dating my wife. She told me she was from Mississippi and that a storm was headed that way. There was no big hoopla before the storm, why? Because it is something that people down here deal with on an annual basis. When the storm hit, there was about 3 days of coverage because of the size, but after that, you just about never heard anything about the devastation caused on the Mississippi coast. All you heard about was, poor New Orleans...I have my own thoughts about people who build a city below sea level, next to a large body of water...but I digress...What I'm saying is, when a storm hits down here...it's run of the mill and thus not deserving national coverage. But when a storm hits the East coast...every media outlet from South Beach to Quinnipiac is up in arms like it's the end of the world...It's a storm. It's not the first, and most certainly will NOT be the last. Board up, stock up, and get through it. But don't make me watch 2 weeks of wall to wall about every tree that gets uprooted and every dog that gets lost...because while you're all worried about the storm...don't look now, Obama is gonna talk and the market will drop another 2k points...I think that sums it up.

All I'm saying is, the media, however biased and consumer driven they may be...still has a responsibility to inform the public. That means that every earthquake and hurricane that hits, no matter where, deserves an equally quality coverage. That means that every hate crime, white on black, black on white, white/black on asian, etc...deserves equal footing. It's all news...but just because it doesn't fit into a specific demographic or a specific region, it doesn' get nearly as much coverage...and THAT is a travesty.