Hurricane Idalia’s Invisible Victims: The Derelict for Duty Mainstream Media

As Hurricane Idalia continues to blast the Southeastern United States, at this hour a Category 1 Hurricane devastating hundreds of thousands of human beings in Georgia, it is worth an audio opinion piece to remind the mainstream media of the invisible victims that they have chosen to remain invisible in their reporting of the storm.  Almost all reporting has focused exclusively on Florida.  One reporter even said that after the storm left Florida it would impact Savannah and Charleston, thus ignoring the hundreds of thousands of human beings in-between.  Could it be because those Georgians are mostly rural or small town people?  I hope not. Or could it be because to position a reporter or an anchor in South Georgia, where large airports are few and far between, these anchors and reporters would have had to drive a hundred miles to get in place (in perfect safety, I might add, since they would have made said drive the day before the hurricane even hit)?   These anchors certainly were not worrying about being exposed to a Cat 3 storm in Florida–they were there in all their glory.  So why not station reporters in Valdosta, or Waycrrss, Douglas, Brunswick or any of a dozen other small towns in Idalia’s path?  Once again, a Cat 3 storm is something to report.  But since a hurricane is still a hurricane, so is one that is a Cat 1 storm. But you wouldn’t notice it from the star reporters and anchors who only think of Florida when they think of natural disasters and a trip to the tropics. Thanks for listening.