INVESTIGATING NEPA August 26, 2017
This weekend, I am thinking of my friend Drew Speier, the former WBRE anchor who is now the main anchor and news director of a station in Corpus Christi, Texas. As I write this, he’s likely been up all night, in wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Harvey which slammed into the Texas coast. And his photographers and reporters in the field are running on adrenaline and caffeine getting their first look at the damage as the sun rises. There is devastation, there have been deaths, and there will be incredible stories of survival, and stories of foolish risks that people take, i.e. hurricane parties, where people were lucky to survive. I’ve been there, having covered several hurricanes during my time in Tampa, and in New Bern, NC. And there was a big difference, not in geography but in stage of career. In North Carolina, most of us covering hurricanes were inexperience, and quite frankly, taking risks that might get us the kinds of stories that we could put on tape