What CNN Does Best in Real Time. Turning a Yawn Into a Blizzard.

"Violent winds and waves slamming Jersey shore..." Hurricane #CNN is the storm before the storm.  Sure there's a current and growing danger not to be ignored by one's common sense.  But the most blustery thing so far seems to be a CNN reporter's presentation from Mt. Pleasant. They missed an opportunity to see the humor in the name.  The annoying wind-on-microphone noise seems to be an opportunity to over-dramatize, and over-dramatization is what CNN does best.  Equally unconvincing are the "white out conditions taking hold" in NYC.  So. it appears no more threatening than an early business-as-usual spring day in Moose Jaw.

With reporter after CNN reporter hyping it up with every superlative they can throw out there, what happens when this thing really does get serious? How much hyped-language is going to be left?

Now they've got a reporter at LaGuardia, obsessing over all those cancellations marked in red. #CNN, always a fascination for bright colors and damaged things.  They've discovered the colors, now licking their easily-frozen chops for (dare I say, hoped-for) damage to come.  If there's less than three feet of snow in NYC, no worries. CNN will keep showing that big pile of salt used borrowed from social media for use on the roads.

The story is written. Looking for a blizzard that fits.  Pray it doesn't live up to the info-tainment hype.