You will be lucky to get any kind of professional weather commentary
from the BBC News. They have dumbed down just like everyone else in the
media, and sensational language is all that they know these days. Any
out of the ordinary weather is described as 'freak', and you can bet
that they follow the headline up with a comment such as 'experts are
warning that the worst is yet to come'. The problem seems to be that
they see themselves as untouchable - they never make mistakes, just
report the ones others make, so that if the worst is obviously well
past ? that doesn't matter because the 'experts' will be perceived to
be wrong, not the news team, when nothing else happens.
What has always worried me, is if this kind of mis-representation is
acceptable for when the weather is the news, just how many other
subjects are being reported so amateurishly? The terrorist threat?
Politics? Everything?