Security always a concern at a Central Florida theme parks

No fair having an interesting discussion while I'm stuck with my parents in an internet-free wilderness at Al & Sally's Motel .

Exactly: media companies, whether you're talking about CNN/Fox/MSNBC breathlessly reporting the latest shooting to cross the wire* or People magazine "forcing" Ellen Degeneres on good Christians by putting her on the cover, are interested in making money. If wall to wall coverage of the latest shooting boosts ratings, they're looking for the next shooting to cover. If Ellen boosts circulation, Ellen goes on another cover.

*Which reminds me of the coverage of the weather in Chicago and northwest Indiana the past couple of days (my parents and I could bond over watching the news, at least). While the predictions were breathless -- winds could gust up to 60 mph! we might get X inches of rain! it could rain/sleet/snow/hail! -- what actually happened was anticlimactic. On Monday, Chicago had precisely two accidents. South Bend couldn't, apparently, muster even one accident. Not much happened, and after reporting that "it's raining/snowing/sleeting/hailing/blowing!!!!!!" and that actual serious weather happened in Texas, New Mexico and other states, the local stations quickly moved on to non-weather-related news. Chicago's mayor Emmanuel returned early from a vacation in Cuba. Mishawaka swore in new city council members. And so on....

Gonch just blew my mind, and popped me out of my conspiracy theorist persona.

Merely playing Devil's Advocate here Slither...

But is it possible that all of the "scary news" about the approaching Midwest storm actually did it's job and prevented all of that? Maybe people heard the news and decided to stay in. Maybe businesses decided to remain closed that day. Maybe the bus lines, trains, and airports scaled back on services. Maybe cities prepared their roads and plows accordingly.

Trust me, I despise the "scary news" just as much as anyone. But every once in a while people might actually make the right choices.

There was a time (before 24-hour news stations) when the news reported the news. That included weather reports...which used to inform us how many inches we expected when snow was predicted. Now, we get reports of how many inches we're expected to get, plus intelligence-insulting "advice" on what we should and shouldn't do because no one apparently is expected to have any idea of the effects of snow and ice on pavement, plus riveting stories and interviews and YouTube videos of people shoveling snow, spinning tires on the street, clearing off their cars...usually "reported" by the typical dips**t climbing the rungs to eventually be anchor but currently freezing his ass off in the middle of a blizzard.

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that WDW is bringing their security operations in-house.

Still.... $10.55 an hour starting pay? Less than the starting pay at Aldi?