Warren Faidley - The Critical Blogger

The Critical Blogger

In 2011 finally Faidley began a blog and public relations campaign to voice his immense concerns regarding the popularization of reality television shows focusing on storm chasers. Faidley has become an outspoken critic of such productions, emphasizing some shows "Promote reckless, inaccurate and irresponsible storm chasing behavior, thus diminishing severe weather safety and legitimate work done by actual researchers, storm spotters and responsible storm chasers." A growing number of well respected professional storm chasers and researchers have voiced similar opinions in criticizing the "Jackass Show" style chasing antics portrayed as "reality" on television. During a 2011 radio interview Faidley said "He rarely uses the term "storm chaser" anymore to label his occupation due to the defamatory and sophomoric image now associated with the terms.