Storm Warning

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Not Enough Sense . . .

“My msg to @nytimes reporters in Florida: do not risk your lives by standing out in the middle of the storm like some of your TV colleagues.”

—Marc Lacey, New York Times national editor, tweets to staff covering Hurricane Irma, in Meg Dalton, “Out in the Storm,” Columbia Journalism Review, Sept. 10, 2017.

• Editorial Comment: . . . to come in out of the rain. Image: Dan Rather did it first, in Hurricane Carla, 1961.


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