CBS - Dan Rather will do a Y2K report

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Just advertised this morning during Face the Nation.

Music:

Y2K, you heard about it and it the U.S. will be great. However, how about other countries...???

Watch tommorow night with Dan Rather to see the startling news about y2k abroad.

End commercial

I wrote this from my shotty memory, but this was the gist of the commercial.

Well, looks like I will be watching their newscast tommorow night...

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), November 07, 1999

Answers

Sounds like a sweeps period 'teaser' to me.

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), November 07, 1999.

Think they will live up to their network initials? Don't confuse CBS with that paid shill financial new channel, CNBS. CBS=COMPLETE BULLS***? Or is it CLINTOON'S BULLS***?

-- profit of doom (doom@helltopay.ca), November 07, 1999.

[my quick notes during CBS' broadcast]: Rather: 53 days and counting. CBS doing a hard news look ahead. White House unveiled today a $42MM operation center. Is there really a ticking time bomb? Steve Kroft: noone really knows where the damage will occur, but everyone agrees all is not y2k ready. John Pasqua (ATT VP for Y2K) believes ATT will work at home, but not so sure about rest of the world since they will not share their status. Worried about Indonesia (oil), Russia (airports), Asia (mfg). Yardeni: so many links in global supply chain - predicting 70% chance of recession, but not doomesday; naively optimistic to beileve all these systems will function fine. Little information available on other countries is all self-reported. Jacqueline xx Bridges/State Dept: failures at every economic level in every region of the world; more than 80 countries with moderate to high risks; pockets of failures, not necessarily disasters. Bruce McConnell: not very much will happen on Jan 1 or 2, somewhat of a non-event, but then will start to see failures in business systems. ATT knows y2k is not a one-night stand; swat teams extending into January. US companies will be waiting to see what in the world will go wrong.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), November 08, 1999.

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