Predicting snow or ice in Dixie is a no-win business.Predict it and there's none, and you're a loser.
Downplay the chances and you are just as much a loser if there's even a hint of ground coverage.
Put yourself in the place of News Directors (and meteorologists)...what would YOU do?
So I'm writing this on Sunday afternoon and the weather team at CBS 8 and The National Weather Service are predicting winter storm with ice overnight.
The Governor has declared a state of emergency.
Stuff is being cancelled...LOTS of stuff...including the Auburn Campus viewing events for the BCS game Monday night, and many many school systems.
Please join me on-air or on-line with the rest of the CBS-8 team for storm information over the next 48 hours...the station is well staffed now, and I'll be joining them early early early. We look forward to serving you as a viewer during the storm.
The photos on the right are from the last snow in Montgomery, in March of 2010.
[PLUS: Read about NPR's grievous error in the Giffords shooting story, reporting she had died when she obviously had not. No excuse, but when networks keep cutting back on staff and adding responsibilities to those left behind...]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog.]
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