Well, guess anything of value is getting deleted...

I very seriously AM curious about what would be considered adequate media coverage and evidence of a non-media/government conspiracy by Doomers.....

Should the major networks be pre-empting normal coverage and having special reports to talk about South Korean apartment houses without heat and electrical fires in India?

-- John H Krempasky (johnk@dmv.com), January 04, 2000

Answers

"anything of value"??? your post certainly has none.

still, in an attempt to educate you a bit...

the media is very good at covering "events" and very bad at covering "processes." y2k looks to be more the latter than the former. the best "coverage" will, I'm sure, be written by historians.

-- joe (joe@adeverloper.net), January 04, 2000.

See my response to this idiot several threads below.

-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), January 04, 2000.

Well John, The Electrical Fire in India, caused by a power surge that has experts puzzled, killed 10 people and may (or may not) be the first instance of a y2k related incident resulting in deaths. Here's the link to the stories in the Times of India:Ten People Dead in New Delhi Fire caused by electirc power surge: experts puzzled: Times of india:

http://www.timesofindia.com/today/03mdel1.htm

I'm looking to the link for the original thread and will post it

http://www.timesofindia.com/today/03mdel4.htm

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

Link to India Fire Thread here on y2kTimebomb

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002CyE

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

Link to Fire Thread here on y2kTimebomb

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002CyE

-- Carl (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

If you think the main media in this country tries to bring the American people a fair presentation of the news, you a sadly mistaken. I'm not just talking about Y2K. Pick a subject... Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia, Indonesia, China, Russia, Waco, Ruby Ridge, political scandals (too many to list)....in EVERY SINGLE case, the media brings us their mother company/US government/power baron's of the world approved point of view. They are not news dispensers they are salesman; telling a story they want "accepted without question" by the masses.

If you actually took the time to read the history of the above listed events; it would change your life forever.

-- meg davis (meg9999@aol.com), January 04, 2000.