Hannah.Taylor
EF4
A fellow chaser on here [he can weigh in if he chooses] recently told me about how he had footage of a tornado on the Plains and none of the media companies were interested. Then one day he gets really good footage of a tornado that destroyed people's homes and causes casualties and all of a sudden a media company wanted this certain footage. He said it dawned on him the media only sells death and negativity to its viewers.2025 has been a banner year for tornado coverage. Live streams, images and video footage is off the scale. What use to be a "once a decade intercept" is now a weekly event. I'm just wondering if the overload is going to eventually desensitize and overload the public and chasers to point where we lose interest. I've noticed the media has already become bored with major and/or graphic events -- or the attention span is just a few hours. For me, I'm certainly not aggressive as I use to be partially because almost every shot or video scenario I can think of has been done. How many times can we watch live video of someone driving on the fringes of a huge wedge? I sometimes think people are just watching to see if someone gets killed -- as often indicated by their chat comments.
After thinking about it, it made sense to me. They want events that are "sensational". Which I fear will prompt chasers to do more reckless, brash things in regards to intercepts and getting "inside the tornado".
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