Weather: Why be so infantilizing?
Why can’t the anglo media here just tell us what the weather will be, and stop infantilizing their public? From the Gazette, Tuesday morning.
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Meezly 08:30 on 2022-10-18 Permalink
And stoking consumerism.
Kate 08:45 on 2022-10-18 Permalink
Indeed!
Thomas 09:51 on 2022-10-18 Permalink
Storytelling is deeply rooted in our anglophone culture, right down to the fact that we call our news articles “stories”. Everything seems to always have to have a “narrative”. As I have immersed myself in French and German culture over the years, this has become even more apparent.
So in the grand anglophone tradition, rather than simply telling me the weather, the Gazette is telling me a story.
Kate 10:46 on 2022-10-18 Permalink
It’s not a story, though – it’s telling me what to do. Just as when CBC radio officiously orders us to “take an umbrella.”
Your audience are adults. Tell us what the weather will be like. We know what to do about it.
Thomas 11:59 on 2022-10-18 Permalink
@Kate What annoys me is when the media tells me how to feel about the weather. Like on Radio-Canada in the morning they tend to paint hot weather in a positive light, even when I’m sweltering with my lack of air conditioning, and anything cool or cold in a negative light even though it’s my favourite time of year.
Just give me the weather and I’ll decide for myself how I feel about it lol
Kate 14:50 on 2022-10-18 Permalink
The other day it was raining, and Sabrina Marandola on CBC radio said something about how it was a good day to stay in with a cup of tea and a book, and then she went off into some text someone sent about cosying up with a blanket and so on, it was so awful out. And it was 18°! Eighteen degrees out, it was nearly balmy! And here were these people going on as if it was cold out.
Kevin 15:47 on 2022-10-18 Permalink
When it was 18 C in Vancouver, I went to the beach.