NBC's Channel 4 in Washington, DC suggests the following websites on their webpage, Make Up Your Own Mind about Y2K (full listing quoted):

(Suggested Websites)

Latest Y2K stories in the news; also try ZDNET.

How will Y2K affect world economy? - Ed Yardeni.

Gary North is skeptical of government and corporate
Y2K preparations. 

Regional Y2K preparations; local Y2K links.

Consumer suggestions - scams, financial items.

Personal preparations - food, medicine, supplies.

Figure the odds of Y2K disaster - based on your
own assumptions:  A good exercise in how much of
our infrastructure is interdependent.

These links are meant to serve as a baseline examination of Y2K from a number of perspectives.  As with everything else on the Internet, a visit to these links will yield dozens of other useful sites that will help you "make up your own mind about Y2K." 

-- Zach Anderson (z@figure.8m.com), November 22, 1999

Answers

Thanks for the post Zach. I wonder why Ed Yourdon's site didn't make the list.

-- (Polly@troll.com), November 22, 1999.

I realize the NBC movie, "Y2K", was full of straw men and basic silliness and had a nice happy ending, but in light of the fact that NBC is referring viewers to a handful of the more pessimistic sites leads me to believe that hey are at least trying to alert the public. For example, viewers are directed to Gary North's "Main Categories Page" which gives one of his more poignant summaries of the problem.

Viewers are also directed to y2knewswire's alarming "Circle of Dominoes" Engine page, which aptly summarizes the gist of Y2K with the following diagram:

Also, the nuclear meltdown scenario presented in the show (regardless of its technical accuracy) may well raise public consciousness to the point of accepting the "necessary evil" of the shutdown of nuclear power plants as a precaution.

-- Zach Anderson (z@figure.8m.com), November 22, 1999.