I watched drudge tonite on fox news at 7:oo est.. the last 45 min. of the program featured a guest by the name of R. Masters.. they discussed aspects of Y2k such as possible planned chaos to be utilized by Klinton as an excuse to remain in power beyond his second term.. Don't miss rebroadcast ..later tonite.early Sun a.m and Sun night ... It was a good showw.......

-- wool hat (Im a believer@believer.com), October 09, 1999

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If anyone is aware of video of this on the web, please post here.

Thanks.

-- vidiot (vidiot@keyboard.com), October 09, 1999.

I'm sorry to say I don't watch any television.

But I have thought about the power of this medium and truly believe that when the very first bank runs are televised, then the general public will get that infamous collective *dope slap* and will head off to their local banks first thing in the morning.

Panic will generate more panic.

:(

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), October 09, 1999.

Don't be sorry you haven't watched T.V.

Heck, I do not even own one.

-- MarktheFart (happy@risperdane.con), October 09, 1999.

Randolph, I appreciate your possible disdain for the public medium of television, but I think you may be foregoing an invaluable asset for keeping yourself informed of the present situation. You should catch the news (so as to realize how gullible the sheeple are), the talking head shows (to see the line of bull they are getting away with), and some lighthearted entertainment (to realize how far morality has receded from the "public" personna). I'm sure you'll be glad you did and pleasantly "entertained".

-- space (hooda@thunk.it), October 09, 1999.

Randolph,

As someone who was living in L.A. during the Rodney King riots, I have to agree with you about the power of television to incite civil unrest. I seriously doubt that the riots would have been even a 10th of what they were, if it weren't for every TV station in town hovering over the beatings and looters, showing the action blow by blow. People saw other people carting sofas out of stores on Santa Monica, or stepping through broken plate glass windows with armloads of Huggies, and they thought, "wow, gotta get mine!"

Then again, if television stations everywhere start to go down, the medium won't have that tremendous an effect, now will it.

Btw, used to watch 6-7 hours a day of TV, mostly CNN, reruns of Law and Order, until I couldn't afford the cable bill any more. After a month, I discovered I don't miss it in th

-- CD (CDOKeefe@aol.com), October 09, 1999.

CD,

If all of the stations start dropping off of the air on 1/1, don't you think all of the folks who can't get their 'mighty mouse' fix will get a little suspicious?

-- just another (another@engineer.com), October 09, 1999.

Actually. a tv station is a huge power hog. If there are power problems, it's the local network outlets that will go off the air, the very ones you need for local news etc. Satellite TV will still be there, I can't speak for cable.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), October 10, 1999.

Having been an intern at a TV Station, I can tell you most TV stations have back-up generators for emergencies. I would imagine they will be well prepared to stay on the air come rollover.

-- Stanley Lucas (StanleyLucas@WebTv.net), October 10, 1999.

Just curious -- a few weeks back our local major AM radio station lost power during storm and was off the air for a period of time. Looks as if they have no backup power, but they're also the designated emergency broadcast channel. Who then broadcasts the emergencies?

-- claurann (claurann@aol.com), October 10, 1999.

More importantly....who will be able to recieve them?

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), October 10, 1999.