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Sorry if this has been posted already. Fox News has put up a very cool Flash Player 4 file on their site. Basically, it is an interactive world map for Y2K status. Looks like they are still building since some of the links aren't yet active.

The information is way more GI than anything I have seen in the mainstream press. (The title on the map legend asks "Who's safe? Who's toast"?) While it's not perfect (IMHO), it will certainly wake up any of the sheeple who stumble on to the site.

Here is the Link

It takes a few minutes to load but it is worth the wait.

-- no (one@you.know), December 11, 1999

Answers

Thanks.

See also...

Paula Zahn of FOX News to do Y2K next week? (Dec. 13-17)

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001ypc



-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 11, 1999.


Fox takes the lead here this is the first I have seen in the media that doesnt give us those warm fuzzies we are used to hearing and seeing. Wow!

Heard on the McAlveny report today that the mainstream media may not provide us information after January 1 suggest short wave.

-- Susan Barrett (sue59@bellsouth.net), December 11, 1999.


I tried the link. Looks like it could be good, but, I can't get any movement on the screen. The text box doesn't have a scroll bar and when I try to close it, it just reloads. Any suggestions? I'd love to look at the stuff behind it!

-- margie mason (mar3mike@aol.com), December 12, 1999.

Hey, Susan, so what **else** is new about the mainfreakingstream media? Business As Usual if there's a news blackout, as far as I'm concerned.

Paula Zahn is a smart babe (and I do mean babe) though. I do hope she's wanted to do this series for a long time. At least if she wanted to do it there is some hope that **some** journalist somewhere has some scruples.

-- paul leblanc (bronyaur@gis.net), December 12, 1999.


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