Check Your Date, J-G

The Maven knows that the Journal-Gazette is operating with a minimal staff and on a razor-thin budget. 

But there's really no excuse for this. 

PS kids. It's February. 

Groundhog Day Storm 2022

 As many of us dig out from the seemingly endless snowfall of the past two days, the Maven would like to offer kudos to local media weather teams for concise and hype-free coverage. 

From beginning to end, viewers were told what to expect, and local media continued to adjust their information to match the ever-changing conditions that combined to give us our latest storm. That's one reason why the 13 inches of snow in Fort Wayne fell right in the middle of the final predictions of 10-15 inches.

Not once did the Maven hear the phrase "the storm of the century" or "a storm of historic proportions". Good job. 

And kudos, also, to WANE-15's Greg Shoup for calling out those charlatan weather forecasters on Facebook and other social media for creating misleading and down-right false "forecasts" of snow and doom. One of the biggest offenders on Saturday was predicting snow totals of nearly 30 inches for Fort Wayne. 

Thank you, also, to the management of WANE-15, WPTA ABC21 (and red-headed step-child Fort Wayne's NBC), and WFFT for committing people and resources to keep your viewers informed.