While our Staff has its specialists, we don’t have a Prognosticator. This week, we had planned to carry on about the practice of all news organizations planting their hapless reporters outside in uncomfortable places to give an air of immediacy to their tales. The reporter on the White House lawn somehow is supposed to carry more weight than if he (or she) was sitting at a desk. On CNBC, our Revered Investment Guru reports, no Federal Reserve announcement is complete without the hapless reporter stationed outside the Fed’s palazzo, for no good reason. Further, as the Presidential candidates flap around the U.S., CNN is putting its talk show hosts outside its bus in the wind and rain, again to no purpose. Well, that’s what we had planned to complain about, when suddenly Hurricane Charley hit this week, and every respectable weather reporter put on the rain gear and got out to show you that it is stupid to be outside in a hurricane. And so, yes we see now, it is.

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