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First, I want to say that I feel deeply sorry for all of those
people who lost their loved ones in this horrible tragedy. I have and will
continue to pray for the comfort and resolution needed to deal with that sort
of loss.
I have been watching the news quite a bit lately (as
always), and I have been very surprised by some of the ways that the media has
tried to spin public interest. When did we get to the point that we needed the
media to tell us how to feel about a devastating tornado or other tragedies?
When I was watching CNN about two days ago, I saw a woman
come on and complain about FEMA. She said that the money that people would be
getting from FEMA would be better used to build storm shelters for each home.
She at least pretended to think it was wrong that the organization would help
people rebuild their houses without providing them the added benefit of
something they didn’t have before. Would insurance cover it? Why should FEMA be
responsible for upgrading your home? Is it their fault that you didn’t build
some sort of shelter the last time a tornado hit? Is it the tax payers’ fault?
If I were involved in something that catastrophic, I would hope to think that I
would be grateful for anything I got.
Another thing that the media has forgotten to talk about is
insurance. If you live in a place that constantly has natural disasters, you
should probably invest in it. I don’t want to sound cold, but if you decided
not to cover yourself with homeowner or rental insurance in order to save a
little bit of money, I consider that irresponsible and I have a very hard time
feeling sorry for your material losses.
Later on another broadcast, the anchors were talking to an
expert of some sort (probably simply survived a natural disaster at some point
in their lives) and asked why the state or local governments did not require
storm shelters or storm cellars to be built for every home. Really? Now you
want the government telling you another criterion for living your own life?
Just take your FEMA money or insurance claim and build one yourself. That is
what I would do (aside from moving). If you feel like your insurance company is
trying to cheat you out of money after filing a claim, you should probably get
a good attorney (they already did).
Why is it that during and directly after the tornadoes, the
major cable networks were pretending to be talking to the actual people on the
ground during the coverage? They said things like, “Please take cover and
protect your families” and “Do not go outside for any reason.” Did anyone else
recognize the false show of support that the news anchors were showing toward
people without working electricity to power their televisions? Some people didn’t
even have natural gas to warm water or anything. They did the same thing with
the flooding that happened the next day. We see what you are doing there, news
guys.
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