We had a 5.4 Earthquake yesterday (07/29/2008) here in Los Angeles and TV coverage during events like this is dismal at best. We had all channels covering it most of the day. This is totally unnecessary. Nothing really happened, some things fell, but that's about it. All they needed to do was come on, make an announcement, and return to regular programming. I bet all the people that wanted to watch the soaps in LA were really mad, I know I was, they pre-empted General Hospital! ! I had to wait until 10:00 to watch it on SoapNet! ! ! They could have run GH at the normal time and have a ticker at the bottom informing everyone news of the earthquake and nothing big happened.
This is LA and we have strong buildings, not straw huts like a lot of places that get earthquakes. Some places an earthquake of this size would kill thousands of people, but basically nothing happened here, just some minor things.
I know some have good intentions but it's really all about the hype and trying to scare us so that we'll be ok with the government taking more of our money. Don't Be Scared!
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