Snow in Minnesota. . . 1942.
When did routine weather events become national news?
Have they always been?
Or this is this a reflection of the vapid nature of television?
As an example, this past week, it was snowing in
Minnesota. That isn’t news. But the
television news treated it as news.
Has television always does this?
Are our weather memories so short in this modern era that
winter in the north is actually surprising?
Or rain in the south? Or is it
that we’ve created living conditions which are now disasters but which were simply
another day in the winter in earlier eras?
Or is television just that dense?
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