On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:24:43 -0500, Mike1
wrote:

The Artist Formerly Known As Your Highness BurnTheAstroCharts wrote:

Stunts like this really make me wonder about the credibility of the
Weather Channel

Their credibility was shot when they started accepting paid
advertisements circa 1985.


Really?

I had no idea that advertizing could influence the weather.

Advertising doesn't influence the weather; it influences the reporting
of it, often to the detriment of the viewing audience as we both have
observed. Without that cash, there'd be no gratuitous P. Allen Smith
puke-inducing play-with-your-garden pieces. With the plethora of
pregnancies at TWC, I wouldn't be surprised if Viagra/Lavitra/Cialis
et al were bankrolling the behind-the-scenes operations.


(AFAIC, TWC lost its credibility when it started hiring what I will
bluntly call "affirmative-action idiots" instead of ugly old geezers who
knew what the hell they were talking about.)