Reporting live from the center of Snowpocalypse

Posted Feb 11, 2010 by Laura Fiorilli

Updated Feb 11, 2010 at 04:37 PM

From what I gather among my Facebook and Twitter friends, Floridians feel a mix of pity and envy for everyone buried under multiple feet of snow up north.

Any envy I have evaporates, though, when I see the TV reporters who dutifully stand right in the thick of the D.C. snowdrifts just to talk to the camera about something Congress or President Obama did. It’s one thing if they’re reporting on the weather itself. But many of them are just trying to cover business as usual. Their live shots, so necessary to the medium, make the viewer shiver with the realization that business is not going on as usual.

Via The Atlantic, here’s a collection of scenes of political reporting from the scene of Snowmageddon.

“Nota bene,” writes the Atlantic’s Max Fisher, “Blogging in a blizzard, which does not require going outside or even, say, changing out of one’s pajamas, is much easier.”