What Type Quality of National News in 2000?

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If Y2K turns out badly:

Have you ever got to wondering how reliable and trustworthy news (on radio, for example) will be next year?

Will our government slant everything pertaining to Y2K to their benefit.... to the detriment of ours??? Will they keep the real news and truth under wraps???

Without the Internet, whatever will we do???

Hemmin & Hawin

-- Hemmin & Hawin.....Paranoid? Not Me!! (Just Wonderin'@My House.com), September 21, 1999

Answers

How reliable and trustworthy is the news NOW??? Forget about 2000, the news media sucks bigtime right now.

-- Newshound (noone@nottelling.com), September 21, 1999.

What got me tonight in watching the news was hearing Peter Jennings saying, "Investors are worried about...investors decided..." No way, Jose, it's not the investors. The investorsdon't know s**t and don't decide. The analysts run with it. It's the institutional investors who direct that market. I coompletely got out on Y2K fears--didn't make a dent.

I'm not blaming Peter Jennings here, exactly, but it does imply a slant toward imagining something that is not what's happening... A subtle point? It's like telling people, "You're the man," when we the citizens are merely cogs in reality.

Yes, all the news is BS--it's the exact same coverage on all the networks, including exactly the same video footage. But whose fault is it? We are animals that put on a lot of pressure toward conformity. We e most comfortable when everyone conforms to the norm...

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 22, 1999.


Alternate media and news sources are important now but will be critical after the rollover.

You cannot trust the mainstream corporate media. Period.

Microbroadcasting, word of mouth, and CB/ham will be your best bet. A note: Ham radio operators, like me, only transmit at the pleasure of the FCC. If the government says stop, we stop. And if ham represents any threat to government propoganda, they will order us to stop- they have all names and adresses listed.

Alternative shortwave stations are large vulnerable facilities and will probably be shut down.

CB will give you only anecdotal and personal information, but word spreads like wildfire and CB can't be shut down. However, it would be very easy for the government to so jam up the CB channels with noise that they would be unusable. Posession of a radio would be a serious crime.

Be prepared to be isolated except for approved propaganda outlets.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), September 22, 1999.


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