KNOXVILLE, TN–Across the U.S., the news media are coping with another week of cripplingly typical temperatures. “It’s awful,” said Jim Moore, editor of The Knoxville News-Sentinel. “We’d love to run a good lead like ’Dozens Dead In Brutal Heat Wave,’ but the temperatures have left us with nothing.” Tom Pierre, news director of Fox affiliate KABB-TV in San Antonio, was equally distraught. “Yesterday, it was a pleasant 73 degrees,” Pierre said. “How is a 92-year-old widow supposed to tragically perish in an unventilated tenement apartment with weather like that?”
Media Suffering Through Record Normal Temperatures
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