what the fuck is CNN doing?! The top five safety tips for NO??

[BigMcLargehuge]

Who in NO has power, a TV, and isn't struggling to survive long enough to -

smell for rotten eggs (could mean leaking gas)
check if your door sticks at the top (ceiling could fall in)
watch your step (there's debris under the water)...

I mean, WHAT THE FUCK!!!! The entire region is powerless, as in, without power... What a stunningly stupid fucking segment to air. No doubt we'll be seeing it all day long. They might as well offer other choice nuggets of information like "watch out for looters" and "try to get out of the city to a shelter" and "don't drink the brown water that stinks like sewage".

Un-fucking-believable. Who are they giving this information to? NO ONE!!!

[deutsey]

1. They're turning this into a "show" for those of us not in NO

[vptpt]

7. Exactly

It's all part of the entertainment for the rest of us, stuck so far from the exciting action! This hurricane is a ratings MIRACLE!

I used to work at a local tv station. Right after 9/11, there was an article circulating about how great and terrific it would be for ratings and sweeps. Even the news people I knew were appalled by that.

[DrDan]

2. Daryn Kagan, by any chance?

what an idiot

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. It wasn't just her

there was another bobble headed idiot dispensing this information too. Apparently provided by FEMA....

(shakes head in disbelief)...

Just stunned, STUNNED, at how fucking idiotic this is...

[havocmom]

3. The disconnect from reality is systemic in America.

That is the underlying problem for everything else.

Who was that bright man who wrote a book about the qualities it took to really be a success in business (as in rise to top management) being the same which define sociopaths? When sociopaths are the ones running things (and look no further than the White House for proof) then things will not work in a manner which is safe and sane.

[skooooo]

4. Wait...what was number 3 again?

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. #3 do not bring toaster into bathtub while bathing

might as well have been... in fact they might as well have done a puppet show warning of alien invasion, it would have had just as much benefit...

[PDittie]

8. it's like the "Dinette Set" refrigerator list

If you don't know what I'm talking about, click here:

http://www.creators.com/comics_show.cfm?next=3&ComicName=din

(Notice what's on their To Do List: "Try and come up with some To Do's")

[zbdent]

9. Tip #1

turn off the TV . . .

Tip #2 GET THE F*CK OUT