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* Why are there helicopters hovering over the traffic jam in the establishing shot? It's a few hours until impact! They can't be news choppers - there shouldn't be anyone home to broadcast to! What news organization has a staff ''that'' dedicated and wouldn't want to be home with their family?

** "Nyah-nyah! ''We're'' in helicopters and ''you're'' stuck on the highway!"

** What, people in California wouldn't be interested in the plight of the inhabitants on the East Coast? What about the rest of the world? There are tons of people to broadcast to! [[Tokyo Is the Center of ~~The~~ Universe|New York isn't the center of the world, y'know.]]

** What, people in California wouldn't be interested in the plight of the inhabitants on the East Coast? What about the rest of the world? There are tons of people to broadcast to! [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|New York isn't the center of the world, y'know.]]

** There would definitely still be people trying to report on the end of the world even as it happened, either through a sense of journalistic integrity ("I'm a reporter, this is what I do, I'm going to do it even at the end of the world") or irrational and borderline hysterical continuation of vulture-like behavior ("HA HA IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD I CAN'T BELIEVE THOSE OTHER LOSERS AREN'T COVERING THIS THE DEATH TOLLS ARE GONNA MAKE FOR GREAT DRAMA!").