Laze latest TV scare?
With all the exaggerations of the island being in flames and ruin on the national news you would think our local Hawaii TV stations would try and shine a realistic light on the subject.
While watching Hawaii News Now, the theatrical weather man Guy Hagi excitedly let me know of a new life-threatening pollutant from the volcano called laze. It happens when lava enters the ocean, he told me. Man your masks Big Islanders, oh no, another major hazard.
How come when the lava was pouring into the ocean over the last several years we were not warned of laze? I saw many tourists in boats checking out the lava going into the ocean on lava tours. But now, according to local newscasts, it seems it’s deadly. Thanks, Hawaii News Now, for the update.
James Duke
Kailua-Kona
WHT guilty of overblowing volcano hype, too
There has been a plethora of misleading and overblown coverage of the current volcanic eruption portrayed by national and international media. Local officials have been outspoken about the effect this is having on those in the tourist business as cancellations begin to occur.
And then the West Hawaii Today publishes a Sunday edition front page with the words “Island on fire”?
If I were in the tourism business and sending advertising dollars to the WHT, I probably would rethink continuing to do so.
Tony Mitchell
Keauhou