By Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., Executive Editor of The Stream - Running a cost/benefit analysis on mass evacuation doesn’t exactly attract eyeballs at 6:45 pm on a Tuesday night. That’s why TV news gives us doom, gloom and hysteria. The worse it sounds, the more viewers tune in... The networks, the Weather Channel, FOX and CNN all sent correspondents to the very places officials were telling everyone else to flee. Why? Because we watch it.