Since we're posting our take on the day's events:

Sanger & Shannon's Review of Y2K News Reports.

"It's been quite an incredible past 30 or so hours on the internet. I believe that this whole "Navy Report" situation will be remembered, at least by people who participated in it, as the first example in a new era of news dissemination and reporting. The raw speed and power of the internet is proving itself. Within a few short hours of information being made available to the public, the U.S. government pulled out all the stops to "address" the situation. If you look closely at what is being said and done, both from "official" sources, and rabble like me, it becomes clear that there is a tug of war, going back and forth, trying to find and to spin the truth.

As I write this, a Kia commercial comes on the T.V.

It's true that the vast majority of people in this country, and in the rest of the world, have no idea about what is happening on the 'net today, and would not believe it if there was even a way to explain it. This whole "Navy Report" is of interest to a small group of people but has large scale implications. As an aside, a snip from the lead editorial in today's New York Times called Mr. Bush's Drug Dodges:

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/editorial/20fri1.html

"...While there is no clear-cut rule about how much personal information they need to provide, more information is almost invariably better than less. That is because efforts to limit information usually just raise more questions, not only among reporters but among voters. Evasion also diminishes those who practice it. Sensitized by Mr. Clinton's 1992 campaign circumlocutions on personal matters, Americans now fear such dodging may be a signal of deeper flaws..."

Hopefully, once the truth about this "Navy Report" is made clear (if ever), and Y2K becomes a footnote in history (hopefully), we will be able to reach a point as a society where we will truly understand that "more information is almost invariably better than less," and act accordingly.

-- pshannon (pshannon@sangersreview.com), August 20, 1999

Answers

pshannon, we too are amazed at how fast this spread. Unusual even in the "info at the speed of light" age. And the Pentagon called a hasty news conference today on this ... article on thread:

NBC says Navy Report is shot down

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), August 20, 1999.