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From the Boston Globe Sunday Ideas section:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02/21/attack_of_the_light_drizzle?mode=PF
"Increasingly, weather is being pre-sold as a kind of public drama, one with a distinctive language and set of conventions - the military-like music, the urgent graphics, the rhetoric of promise and veiled threat. We’ve come to take all this for granted in a modern storm forecast. The roots of this approach though, don’t lie in meteorology. They come from the hype of Hollywood and big-event television - a business in which overselling isn’t a sin, as long as you draw an audience."
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02/21/attack_of_the_light_drizzle?mode=PF
"Increasingly, weather is being pre-sold as a kind of public drama, one with a distinctive language and set of conventions - the military-like music, the urgent graphics, the rhetoric of promise and veiled threat. We’ve come to take all this for granted in a modern storm forecast. The roots of this approach though, don’t lie in meteorology. They come from the hype of Hollywood and big-event television - a business in which overselling isn’t a sin, as long as you draw an audience."
