Weather forecasting, which one wants to be as detached and impartial as medical diagnosis, is nowadays infected with the same longing for drama that shapes television and journalism in general. Like the War on Terror or the prevalence of cancer these Cassandrine predictions are meant to keep the nation in a state of disquiet, or ‘on their toes’ I suppose they would describe it. But weather should not be exaggerated: an inch or two of snow is not a ‘white-out’; having to drive at 50 mph rather than 70 is not ‘the nation ground to a halt.’ It’s just weather.
Alan Bennett, entrada de diário de 4 de Janeiro de 2006 (do volume Keeping On Keeping On).
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