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Originally posted by navane
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. Have you been watching only one news station? At our house we've been flipping between them all (well, 7/39, 8, 9/51, and 10). Maybe the fact that your cable went out and you missed a few days worth is contributing to your viewpoint. 
In the very beginning, when Scripps Ranch was on fire, there was a good percentage of coverage on it. Then again, it was also a relatively heavily populated suburban community (as opposed to say, Cuyamaca). Some 350 of 960 houses which have burnt down in SD County were in Scripps Ranch - that doesn't seem like unfair coverage to me.
.....Kelly 
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Kelly,
My viewpoint probably was a
little skewed....on Sunday before the cable went out here, it was focused on the Scripps Ranch area....that's all we saw for the fire coverage all morning. I think a lot of my frustration came from the fact that it seemed like the coverage was painting a picture that this was the first community heavily hit by the fire....when I know that Ramona and the Country Estates were hit hard way before Scripps Ranch lost even one home. Because SR is so heavily populated, I can understand why so many houses were lost and the number seems huge, but then you also look at the community of Crest, which is a much smaller rural community, and they lost over 200 homes in the same fire. It's terrible when anyone loses a home, and I think I was just a little upset that the newscasters were making such a big deal out of Scripps Ranch (even though at the time that was the biggest area (number wise) affected).
And maybe it's just my hometown pride coming out in me that feels a little slighted by all the coverage in the first few days of areas other than Ramona, even though it
was kinda difficult to get up this way in the first few days of the fire. {I'm not trying to say that Ramona is anymore important than the other areas affected by the fires going on around the state, but it's frustrating to see this news coverage about the fires going on and they're broadcasting from Lakeside or other areas of the county that weren't as heavily hit and weren't the "point of origin" for the fire. I had the chance to drive down the 67 to Poway for the first time today since the fires began, and it's absolutely devastating to see the amount of damage that occurred between Ramona and all the way down toward Scripps Ranch...I can't even imagine what the areas around Miramar, Tierrasanta, and Clairemont look like that were burned.