Where is the news report?

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I awoke this morning at 4:00 a.m., and went downstairs to turn on the T.V. At about 4:15, the CBS announcer gave the "teasers" for the top news stories of the morning. The top story, of course, is the earthquake in Turkey. I don't remember the second one, and the third story was "A recent survey made by the Navy on Y2K, showing that many cities may be at risk of losing valuable utilities..." The national CBS announcer was visibly shaken while making this statement. Since then, nothing, and the rest of the morning news has been the president's vacation, including Buddy the dog, etc. I called the local CBS news station, but they hadn't noticed the ommission. This was one of the top three stories of the day. It's now 7:15 a.m., and I'm going to keep listening. Teasers since then have made no mention of the survey, and they're talking about filler issues now. (Entertainment, etc.) Where is the story?! (An aside: It was good that I was in the living room at 4:00 a.m. anyway, because I was there when the bat flew through the room. Even though I was under a blanket on the couch, my husband could hear me yelling! :) )

-- Anonymous, August 20, 1999

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this is the type of crap that has me so turned off to the whole affair.

we sit here and analyze, ad nauseum, data from the nerc reports and various other documents and statements... why?

it has been obvious to me for quite some time that the die is cast... the only question that remains is how bad is it *really* going to be?

where is there any indication in an analysis of the nerc reports, or any other reports, put out by any other agency or organization responsible for overseeing or affiliated with the power industry, that the problems will be as dire as those reported in the navy documents?

i'll answer it for you... nowhere -- where is nowhere? the total state or place of nonexistence.

so i ask you... how can this be? i firmly believe that the navy, as an arm of the military, has access to information that we, as laymen, will never be privy to.

we are in deep shit and intellectual debate is not going to change that one whit.

jim lord calls for action... make the people aware, let the people know the truth. what are the chances? MOST OF US ARE ALL TALK AND *NO* ACTION!!!

this is why i wanted to start a petition to turn off the nukes... do you really believe that what these bastards are telling us is true?

they aren't lying to us... no, can't say that... that smacks of paranoia. can't say there is a coverup... that means we are antigovernment and a member of some whacko fringe movement.

so now we just sit here, like nice little girls and boys... until the lights go out.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 1999


Here's the link to the report: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/AP19990819_522.html Regards, Bill

-- Anonymous, August 20, 1999

Marianne, You are one "cool" lady. I love your enthusiasm. And, by the way, why would anyone believe anything that this Administration

-- Anonymous, August 20, 1999

I hit the wrong key, sorry. Re: believing this Administriation. How could anyone believe anything they say. How many times have you been looked in the eye (or not) and told something. How often does it turn out to be true? Just because you want to believe what they say does not make it so!

-- Anonymous, August 20, 1999

Drew has posted an article about this, including a link to an AP story in the Washington Post.

I heard a blurb about the Navy report on the TV news this morning on the local ABC affiliate, twice in an hour. They seemed to be taking it from the AP story. I was very surprised to hear it, actually.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 1999



Ann M - see the note below Marianne - You go girl! Dallas - you are right,

And to all youall (note for you Yankee's out there, that is Southern for you'uns) I dabble in languages and can even interpret NewYork.

The news in this country is spin, all spin. and nothing but spin, if you become aware of it.

Ann M, please note, I normally work all night and check the news at 3 and 4 AM. That is just about the only time you get any real news in this country out of the major media. It is when first reported and the less experienced, peons, who are assigned to midnight shift actually do some real reporting of the news. They haven't figured out yet that that is not their job. As the more senior bosses filter in, each a bit later and later, the news gets spun more and more, so that by the afternoon, up is down and down is up.

It is a continuing phenomenon, not just on y2k, but on all the controversial news. The only time you really get to see the real news is when most everyone is asleep.

If you wish to follow this phenomenon, take a look at the AP wire service and see the same story, as it begins early in the AM, and is continually modified throughout the day with repeated minor changes,

The Navy report has been floating around the net since this past spring, at least, that'w when I first ran accross it.

If you wish the best place I have found for it try:

http://www.jimlord.to/CitiesatRisk.cfm

Jim is pretty serious and put it on the web from Togo.

See also my post on the next thread

xBob

-- Anonymous, August 20, 1999


For anyone still in diapers, a news flash: governments lie, corporations lie, and news organizations lie.

For a dose of reality (copied from the Anti-consumer web site):

**Here's a lovely historical quote having to do with the "Free Press" in America.

John Swinton (considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), Chief of Staff New York Times, when asked to give a toast at the New York Press Club in 1953 had this to say:

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."**

-- Anonymous, August 20, 1999


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