After a welcome vacation and a less-welcome hurricane-related flight cancellation (which, luckily, set us back only a day), I’m back. Kind of! Like the New York metropolitan transportation grid, Tuned In is gradually and fitfully restoring its regular schedule. Expect delays, scattered outages and surly, grudging customer service in the interim.
Hurricane Irene was the big media news of the week that I was out of the country,* and the media is now covering whether it overcovered the storm. Because I was on vacation (either away from a screen altogether or with irregular wifi service most of the time) I can’t comprehensively assess the coverage here in the U.S. as a critic. But I can make a few observations as a tourist—worried about whether my Sunday flight would be canceled and whether my Brooklyn home would be floating in the Gowanus Canal when I got back—who got most of my news via Web and Twitter, then hunkered down in front of the hotel TV Sunday morning to see if NYC was getting blown away.
