The “Meteo-show” in the newspapers
2018
Abstract. In this work we focus on what may be described as one of the worst
journalist practices when dealing with severe weather: the “Meteo-Show”,
considered as the more or less extended informative practice whose main
objective is to increase the news impact regardless of the veracity and the
exactitude of the weather facts. In this work we analysed such practices on
newspapers highlighting different journalist resources used in written press
when dealing with weather for attracting attention and promoting impact. The
growing public interest in weather causes that journalists often focus on
this topic. But as it could happen with other issues, mistakes,
inaccuracies, sensationalism and exaggerations have also reached meteorology
related written news. This wrongdoing is especially present and dangerous
when episodes of adverse nature are treated. In this paper we present some
keys to identify “Meteo-show” in the context of written press. We analysed
some examples from real news articles published in different newspapers, in
order to understand the motivation of these practices. Finally we present
some conclusions and recommendations to deal with this subject.
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