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Ike coverage: sense of urgency?
Tell me, friends: which of the following home pages, each representing a major news site on the Texas coast, has a more appropriate sense of urgency about the impending landfall of Hurricane Ike?
Before you cite any bias on my part because the second example, caller.com, is a Scripps site: The first example, khou.com, is a Belo site that I used to help oversee when I was regional director there. I have friends in both places, and great respect for both organizations.
I just found it interesting that khou.com, right in the path of the storm, seems a lot calmer (too much so, methinks) than caller.com, which was in the path until about 36 hours ago.
What do you think?
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While I share some of your prejudices regarding Corpus (I'm a recovering Scripps geek), their main page is striking and definitely conveys the sense of urgency I've felt while watching this on TV. Nice job ... and best wishes to all our friends who are riding the storm out.
It so happens that KHOU TV was rebroadcast on DirecTV as the local station of choice for hurricane coverage (DirecTV offered this service with a New Orleans station during Gustav, too).
The seeming calm of the KHOU.com Web site definitely did not match the intense coverage on-air. Not sure what that tells us, except that when massive breaking news occurs, TV news organizations maybe still, well, default to TV.