I read online yesterday that our old home in the Atlanta area is no longer in a drought. I have been keeping track of the lake as water preservation is an issue that interests me as well as having a lot of friends who still depend on that lake for drinking water, to fill their pools and water their lawns.
Below is a graph of the lake level on Lake Lanier north of Atlanta. I wonder if the news medial will pounce on this story like they did when the lake was low? Somehow I doubt it. When the lake got to a record low it was national news. It was never reported that the lake had gone low like this several times in the past 50 years. Lakes all across the southeast were in the same condition but none of those were mentioned. This is just another example of taking what you hear on TV or the newspaper with a very large grain of salt. News outlets produce the news to sell ads and make money, not to report the whole truth. The storey de jour is now what color iPod the queen received from our president! No time for the news outlets to go back and admit they might have been wrong about this ‘crisis’.
Anyhow I’m glad that the pools will be full when we visit GA this summer to show off Lucy!
2 comments:
Good news. Bad news sells so we'll always get bad news way before we see the good stuff. Maybe that's why news papers are going out of business all over the world.
No doubt about it all news is biased in one way or the other. It would be nice to find news that would just tell us the naked truth and let us make up our own mind!
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