Reporters Risk Their Lives To Cover Hurricane Ike

As Hurricane Ike hovers off the coast of south Texas near Houston, millions of people have been heading out of town in order to escape this storms nasty potential. However, there are a few people that routinely head into the harms way of hurricanes and those people are television journalist. This weekend, dozens of television broadcast network reporters from ABC, CBS and NBC - along with scores of reporters from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and local Houston television stations will ride out Hurricane Ike while reporting this story from ground zero and many times trying to do so in winds over 100 MPH.

For most of my life I have watched as reporters flood into the eye of a hurricane in order to report that storms effects to their views back at home. In my view, many of these reporters take too many unnecessary risks with their lives just to prove that a hurricane brings with it extremely high winds. It almost makes me want to laugh as reporters try to stay upright while standing in the middle of a hurricane and I really do laugh when they are shouting for everyone to get out while they foolishly put their own lives at risk just for a story.

During most hurricanes, reporters seem to ride out the storm just fine and live to report another story on another day. However, it is only a matter of time before some well known news reporter will be killed while standing in 100 MPH plus winds because some piece of roofing material or a highway sign blows off it's foundation - hits them in the head and kills them on live national television. It is one thing to be interested in reporting the facts of a hurricane back to people watching at home, it is something else entirely when some of these reporters risk their own life just to prove that a hurricane is deadly.

Title: Reporters Risk Their Lives To Cover Hurricane Ike
Written: September 12 2008
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