New York Times Exiles Hurricane Irene to Page A17
Imagine this scenario:
A meteor the size of Texas is due to smash directly into New York City in three days and it is much too late to send Bruce Willis up there to save the metropolitan area from Armageddon. You can read all about it in the New York Times...but only on page A17.
Sounds pretty bizarre, right? Well, in reality that is exactly what happened on Thursday in regards to Hurricane Irene coverage. The front pages of both the New York Post and the Daily News were covered with large satellite photos of Hurricane Irene along with big headlines. The New York Times? Hurricane Irene was nowhere to be found on the front page. In fact it wasn't even on the second, third, fourth, or even fifth pages. To find their Hurricane Irene story you had to flip... flip... flip... flip... flip.... all the way to where they hid an article on the subject on page A17.
Your humble correspondent bought the national edition of the Times cleansed of Hurricane Irene information on the front page which you can see below the fold strictly for laughs.
So what stories on the front page rated higher in importance over Page A17 Hurricane Irene according to the New York Times? Well, there was New Numbers, and Geography, for Gay Couples. The weird thing is that even those who bothered to read that article probably couldn't get the non-front-page Hurricane Irene out of their minds. Some excerpts to prove this point starting with the first sentence:
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — So much for San Francisco.
Rehoboth Beach? Might not be much of a beach left due to Hurricane Irene. Oops! Sorry for intruding into your all important story which takes precedence over Hurricane Irene. Please continue:
The No. 1-ranked town is Provincetown, Mass., at the tip of Cape Cod.
Where the cone of Irene is projected to pass over. Okay, please return to your vital front page story:
New York is too big to figure prominently in top city rankings for same-sex couples per capita (it was 67th in 2010, Mr. Gates said), but it does rank by county, alongside more the more traditional locations. Manhattan is No. 5, after San Francisco County, Hampshire County, Mass., Monroe County, Fla., and Multnomah County, Ore.
New York? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that city due to be hit by the biggest natural catastrophe in about a century in just three days? Eh! It only rates Page A17 coverage in the Times.
Meanwhile, perhaps somebody should pinch Pinch Sulzberger, the New York Times publisher, so he can awake from his deep slumber and get connected with reality.
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Comments
Can't obama divert this? I
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:13am.
Can't obama divert this? I fret it will ruin his vacation and then he will be all cranky and won't be able to stay up late and watch espn.
Yes, he can.
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:24am.
Yes, he can divert this, but he must act fast and have his staff write a bold and eloquent speech denouncing the hurricane for him to deliver - "tele-promptly".
I have no doubt He can divert it!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:12am.
All Da One has to do is face south and start his usual BS, hot air, bladder and He will no doubt generate enough wind that the storm will have to shift left or right just to get around his stream of BS!
I'm betting that it will shift left after listening to the RBFSOB.
If there was just sooooooome way that He could blame this on Bush ...............
How Irene can get noticed by the NYT
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:18am.
Yeah, but wait until they try to tie Irene to "man-made global climate change", THEN it will be on the front page - in big bold letters.
bush and cheney are at it
Submitted by loshonhora on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:06am.
bush and cheney are at it again. first katrina, now irene. ohh how they hate black people...and gays.
Oh that Cheney and his weather machine!
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:21am.
What a rascal he is. I can see him grinning as he turns on the power switch, "Gonna get those NorthEast liberals now, heh, heh."
I thought it was Karl Rove's
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:57am.
I thought it was Karl Rove's weather machine!
You're right! Shame on me. I forgot.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:01am.
!
The Link has been made and it's Obama's fault
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:50am.
"Hurricane Irene’s dangerous power can be traced to global warming says Bill McKibben—and Obama is at fault for his failed leadership on the environment."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/25/hurricane-irene-can-be-...
If the hurricane hits NYC and
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:30am.
If the hurricane hits NYC and destroys a mosque and a gay bar..........then it will be very big news.
Unless the Gay bar is---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:43am.
found inside the mosque. :o)
MD
Lol
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:47am.
Lol
Ditto
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:22am.
.
Those pastel prayer rugs with
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:46am.
Those pastel prayer rugs with the glitter are a dead giveaway.
Yeah, Killa.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:15am.
I have a feeling that New York City is about to get a redefinition of "blow job" from Irene.
Prayers for all Nbers in the area
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:45am.
Freestinker, scubadude, Fitzfong and Mr Shy. Make sure to pack up on supplies.
A good supply of water, batteries, etc.
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:52am.
Is a good idea.
But the way this thing is tracking now, I'm thinking it may just blow right on by the Outer Banks.
We'll know by noon tomorrow.
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Thanks Shawn, I am in one
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:14am.
Thanks Shawn,
I am in one of the zones that will be evacuated first being that I live about a mile from the beach in Staten Island. Already thinking of packing things into the Jeep and head over to New Jersey and crash at one of my brothers houses.
You do NOT try and fight Mother Nature.
Scoob,
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:04am.
LOL - Hey, where's your sense of adventure?
:-^)
Stay safe.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Oh I have a sense of
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:36am.
Oh I have a sense of adventure, but there are certain things I will not fool with and hurricanes are one of them especially living so close to the water.
Of course the any damage Irene will do is nothing in comparison to the damage The Absentee President is doing to this country.
Hey, wasn't Irene the code they used to start the operation that resulted in Black Hawk Down?
Hmmmmm, methinks I best bring water and night vision goggles with me. :-)
Scoob, I can't blame you
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:33pm.
I've ridden out three hurricanes, one on the coast of NC (the beach house was literally shaking), one that shot up through the Gulf and was still hurricane strength when it blew through Atlanta some years ago (fortunately it was moving really fast so the damage was pretty minimal), and another one when I was a young kid and barely even remember.
I also went through the snow hurricane that knocked out my power and phone for nearly a week and left Atlanta literally paralyzed.
LOL - That one took out one of my Webers when it blew a tree limb onto it.
The really freaky part is if the eye passes over you. If that happens, you get to watch all the stuff that blew one way get blown in the opposite direction.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I've been through several
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 2:15pm.
I've been through several Hurricanes myself including one of which I experienced the eye of the storm (Frederick, '79). That was a very eerie thing. Middle of the night...no ground lights whatsoever...clear view of stars in the sky and the erriest thing....dead silence. Normally at night you'd hear crickets, frogs, owls, etc. but all ambient night-time animal noises were stilled that evening. My Dad and I went outside with flashlights to survey any damage (fortunately none) and when the winds started picking up in the opposite direction we went back inside.
My inlaws lost their home in Katrina. Many friends are relatives from New Orleans eastward along the Gulf Coast during Katrina. Fortunately no deaths among them. My father-in-law did get injured and had to be medi-vac'ed to Birmingham, AL along with my mother-in-law who needed twice-a-week kidney dialysis. Unfortunately the military who evacutated them to B'ham didn't get to them for 2 days.
The sky is falling!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:13am.
You're going to evacuate? Why not wait for the Government to come and pick you up and give you a hunk of cheese product and a pre-paid credit card and cellphone?
What kind of cheese? Knowing
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:38am.
What kind of cheese? Knowing this administration I'll be given a hunk of limburger.
Wait for the Government to help me? No thanks, I will take care of myself thank you very much. :-D
Scoob
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:52am.
THAT is an excellent idea.
WTH? It's Friday....bug out early if you are going to go, because once it begins to look a bit "bad", many people will get the same idea and you will be stuck! Even if it's only minor but you lose power, everyone will want to be gone as well.....besides, nice pool, etc.
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Ok, how weird is this? I am
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:19am.
Ok, how weird is this?
I am at work now and have my Ipod playing. I have a little over 10,000 songs on the thing and it is on shuffle right now.
What song happens to be playing while I start to type a comment?
"Eye of the Hurricane" by The Alarm.
(queue theme music to The Twilight Zone)
Scoob
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:45am.
Glad to hear you're leaving SI for the storm. Stay safe.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
NB'ers
Submitted by MrShy on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:59am.
I actually did do as shawn recommended, and packed up on supplies -- including new trainers and swim trunks and sandals and SPF 50 -- and I'm hightailing it to (I'm not making this up) The Bahamas.
I'm in Orlando now waiting for my connecting flight. Yes, I lucked out with Mother Nature. Got out of NYC just in time, said "hello" to northbound Irene off in the distance over the Atlantic on my way down, and will be landing in Nassau almost two days after they got hit.
I will be keeping my fellow NY'ers, and other friends I know along the mid-Atlantic coast, in my prayers.
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Apply that stuff generously, Shy
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:44am.
Not a cloud in the sky today.
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Enjoy your trip Shy. Good to
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:54am.
Enjoy your trip Shy. Good to hear you are able to high tail it out of here before the storm hit.
Hope the Bahamas are ok since Irene passed by there.
timing is everything.
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:22pm.
And yours seems to be perfect Shy. Enjoy the beach.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Shy on the fly, eh?
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:25pm.
Lucky you.
Stuck here in Atlanta.
Its sunny and hot, but there's no beach. :-(
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Thanks everyone! :)
Submitted by MrShy on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:10pm.
I'm doing a one-week trial run with Mrs. Shy, who's meeting me from her hometown in Siberia. Maybe this one will stick. We did that photo shoot almost a year ago, and she went back home the next day... kept in touch but haven't seen her since.
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I hope it all works out for
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:01am.
I hope it all works out for everyone and everythig - inasmuch as possible - for you folks over there . I've been through 2 hurricanes here on Kauai (although I wouldn't want to be bragging about it, especially to people in the 'hurricane belt', but I've watched roofs flying off and houses being destroyed, live and in person, because I stayed home during both of them - hey, where the hell do you go on an island where the WHOLE place is going to be hit???
Actually, Iniki was pretty bad - in 1992 - and me, my wife, my two sons, and our dog watched half of my own roof get ripped off right in the middle of the storm - and we had nowhere else to go!!! That made the next few hours really......................interesting??? Actually, it was hairy as hell!!!
Like you say, Scoob............you DON'T mess around with Nature - she's gonna do what she's gonna do, and that's a stone cold fact.................I don't care what ALGORE or the rest of the whackjobs think.'
Oh yeah, 'there are those' (because I've heard them with my own ears) who thought that Hurrican Iniki was a test run of the government's ability to control the weather, and they did it to us because we are kind of a small, out-of-the-way island, and they needed to see how their 'weather machine' works....................I'm SERIOUS!!!
Shawn
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:41am.
Thanks. I'm up in the hills, so no flooding for me, but the wind will no doubt knock out some power lines.
All loaded up on water, food, and batteries.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Don't forget the ICE!!!
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:52am.
For you folks who are liable to lose your power, you need to stock up on ice.
If you can find it at this late date, get block ice. If not, bags will do, but take all of your plastic storage containers, and fill them with water, and fill up your freezers. You should still have enough time to freeze your own blocks. This will also give you more potable water in reserve.
One final word of caution from experience....BE VERY CAREFUL (and leave the kids inside) after the worst of the storm blows through when you go outside. Many people are severely injured AFTER the storm. I'm serious, we had one of our guys electrocuted in the aftermath. Wear protective clothing and BOOTS. Storm debris is dangerous, and if you cut yourself badly, getting to the hospital isn't as easy as it was pre-storm.
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Thanks for the advice
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:58am.
Thanks for the advice Blonde.
I am definitely packing my boots and some work gloves to clear any debris out if any.
As far as the ice goes, since I will be leaving I figure what I will do it move the perishables from the fridge to the freezer and the stuff that you really can't freeze I will either take it with me, feast on it tonight are just leave it in the fridge.
I figure the stuff put in the freezer should keep for a day or two if power is lost.
Good night, New York Times, er, I mean, Irene, good night
Submitted by deadeyedan on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:44am.
Of course the Gray Lady wants no one to recognize the seriousness of the situation.
That way there will be more casualties to report on (and attract more readers) and so many more of those casualties to blame on global warming.
This is not hard, folks!
Global warming - authoritarian, rather than authoritative, science
ClimateGate - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution
Liberalism - government of the people by the theories and for the ideologists
Putting news items that
Submitted by jdhawk on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:03am.
Putting news items that people might even read in the NYT in the back of the newspaper is part of their strategy to keep their stock price lower than Bank of America's in hopes that Warren "I Love O'bozo" Buffett will given them a loan, too!
While that may sound amusing it may actually be true. They lost over 120 million dollars last quarter alone. They made a mere 5 million dollars the quarter before that. If it weren't for selling their part interest in the Boston Red Sox, they might be really hurting.
Go NYT! - into oblivion . . . .
Obama's orders. When he's
Submitted by Barack Must Go on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:52am.
Obama's orders. When he's back in town it will be a completely different story, well same story different page.
If nothing else, libs sure are predictable.
If New York City gets hit hard by the hurricane, Mayor Bloomberg
Submitted by virginia republican on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:51am.
can always blame the opponents of Obamacare. Or perhaps those who own handguns illegally in the city. Maybe Plaxico Burress?
The NYT suffers from Lesbophobia,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:52am.
and the Carpeteers are not pleased:
"Absolutely fabulous how gays and same-sex couples have been able to find more welcoming acceptance in so many more places. BUT once again the report, the photos, and apparently this article focuses entirely on gay men. What about gay women (as I prefer to call myself)/ lesbians? Why are they skipped here? We're a significant population, too, yet almost all articles-- and even more significantly, nearly all studies-- are exclusively about men. This is unfair, misleading, and biased, and we (lesbians and in fact the whole country) deserve better balance."
(Most recommended comment by a large margin). Shame on you, NYT.
Meanwhile, in the darkened hallways of the NYT...
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:44am.
In my mind's eye I see the head editor walking down a darkened NYT corridor late one night...most people have gone home for the evening...and he hear's a voice from nowhere softly whisper, "If you bury it, it won't happen."
[With apologies to the film "Field of Dreams" -- my favorite movie of all time.]
One more hint if you evacuate.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:30am.
Don't forget your favorite beverages!
I'm ready to get back to The Rock. Too many hurricanes and earthquakes up here.
One thing I've learned after many, many storms like this (you don't want to know). Wind is scary, but water is deadly. Get to high ground. It's too late to decide to leave low lying areas after the water is rising. Get the hell out early.
To paraphrase a very famous hero, "There are old flood survivors, and there are bold flood survivors, but there are no old, bold flood survivors."
Remember, Duck ain't just a town on the Outer Banks. It is also a hurricane instruction!
Storm surges
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:15pm.
Yeah, storm surges are a b!tch and a half depending on how strong the storm is.
-Jon