This picture is actually of a typhoon from somewhere in the Pacific years ago, but its about the same relevance as what Jason Sudoku was showing on KCCI News Channel 8 last night. Jason was clicking here and zooming there, one man standing between Iowans and certain death. Well Jason, the news was just 30 minutes earlier, did you cover it then? If this storm was stacking up the bodies like cordwood, why didn’t you take off Inside Edition? Why did you only interrupt prime time? Is it because its on a different rate structure in payments to the station? Then the syndicated programs, and not the network programs?

A lot of people had waited months for the season premiere of Hawaii 5-0. We understand the importance of actual life threatening weather events, we just don’t believe there was one, or that you treated it as such. With all your closeups and zooming and clicking, you never did convey the 2 most important aspects of a storm: “Where was it? And where was it going?” Anyone plugged into radio or TV could have been served by the National Weather System emergency alert broadcast. “Beep! Beep! Beep! There is a dangerous storm in Jonesville moving to the northeast, seek shelter now!” 30 seconds and you’re done.

But Jason on 8 and Ed Wilson on channel 13 are more into performance art. Their “street map views” and diagrams of the “hail wall”, obscure with colors and movement the only 2 things you need to know, “Where is it, and where is it going?” Instead, we got a 40 minute meteorological lesson on the minutia that make up a storm. If you were trying to enhance public safety, you failed. As one woman on your Facebook page said, you were grandstanding.