“In times of impending crisis that can affect your safety in your back yard, I believe no entity in the media world does better than local broadcasters who stay on the air before, through and following a natural disaster,” wrote Randall King.
Randall King
NOTE: This was posted on social media by Randall King, former TV news producer and currently Professor of Communication/Associate Dean at North Greenville University in South Carolina.
King writes Turn it Off: Media Literacy for Followers
News Blues shares his comments with permission from the author.
News Blues does accept submissions for Guest Commentaries, but we reserve the right to publish or edit them. Send your commentary to Paul@NewsBlues.com
“There are plenty of things wrong with news media these days – what millions of critics sloppily call “THE MEDIA” – but local coverage of impactful storms, or generational hurricanes, or city-wide fires, etc., is not the problem,” King wrote on social media. “Frankly, I’m tired of seeing local media lumped in with the rest by trolls and tweeters (redundant) who thrive to gripe and have no idea what it takes to do the work. So shout out to the local TV stations who will work round the clock this week, particularly the meteorology teams. These events are their Olympics and election night, rolled into one.”
Waiting for the Worst
By Randall King
Mark it down…you might want to remember where you were this weekend when the worst came.
It’s potentially that once in a lifetime kind of storm that shuts your world down for a while and you remember with a name, like “Blizzard of ‘78.”
- Guest Commentary
January 26, 2026Waiting for the Worst: GUEST COMMENTARY
By Paul Greeley
817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com
“In times of impending crisis that can affect your safety in your back yard, I believe no entity in the media world does better than local broadcasters who stay on the air before, through and following a natural disaster,” wrote Randall King.
NOTE: This was posted on social media by Randall King, former TV news producer and currently Professor of Communication/Associate Dean at North Greenville University in South Carolina.
King writes Turn it Off: Media Literacy for Followers
News Blues shares his comments with permission from the author.
News Blues does accept submissions for Guest Commentaries, but we reserve the right to publish or edit them. Send your commentary to Paul@NewsBlues.com
“There are plenty of things wrong with news media these days – what millions of critics sloppily call “THE MEDIA” – but local coverage of impactful storms, or generational hurricanes, or city-wide fires, etc., is not the problem,” King wrote on social media. “Frankly, I’m tired of seeing local media lumped in with the rest by trolls and tweeters (redundant) who thrive to gripe and have no idea what it takes to do the work. So shout out to the local TV stations who will work round the clock this week, particularly the meteorology teams. These events are their Olympics and election night, rolled into one.”
Waiting for the Worst
By Randall King
Mark it down…you might want to remember where you were this weekend when the worst came.
It’s potentially that once in a lifetime kind of storm that shuts your world down for a while and you remember with a name, like “Blizzard of ‘78.”
“Ice-Mania ‘26.” “Ice-apocalypse?” “Ice-Away ‘26.”
Anyone, anyone…Bueller?
Well..it’s got to be better than FERN !!! Thank you, The Weather Channel, for storm names no one needs for $1000.
Waiting for the Worst – by Randall E. King
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