CNN special series "Y2K: Will the Bug Bite?"

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CNN special series "Y2K: Will the Bug Bite?"

Awareness grow. -- Diane

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/1998/12/24/entertainment1024EST0233.DTL

For release Mon PMs, Dec. 28, and thereafter

FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer Thursday, December 24, 1998 -- Breaking News Sections

(12-24) 07:24 PST NEW YORK (AP) -- Elsewhere in television ...

CNN & Y2K: CNN Headline News provides its viewers with a look into how the much-publicized ``Y2K problem'' of the millennium may affect people's daily lives in a special series, ``Y2K: Will the Bug Bite?'' Two two-minute special segments will air daily, Wednesday through Saturday, in newscasts each morning and evening. Topics include how banks are preparing for Y2K and how consumers can protect themselves; how Y2K could affect home appliances and personal computers; how utility providers can ensure delivery of water, power and telephone service in the year 2000.

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 24, 1998

Answers

After the jingle & jangle of holiday cash registers, + the jiggle of impeachment votes, Y2K will rear it's head. Thanks, Diane! Wonder which slant CNN will put on it? Keep their keyboards to the fire ;)

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-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), December 24, 1998.


Thanks Diane for keeping us updated. I will pass this information around.

-- Linda A. (adahi@muhlon.com), December 25, 1998.

Diane, Wonder what would happen if we taped all these specials onto one tape, made copies and distributed them somehow. ??????

-- Moore Dinty moore (not@thistime.com), December 25, 1998.

Look at their "attitude" about what they find first - distributing bad info makes a problem worse.

On the other hand, this moves the awareness problem up a few notches in the "mainstream media" scale. For example, Readers Digest "pooh-poohed" the problem, Vanity Fair had a surprisingly good "historical piece" about why it is not solved yet, CBN has been focusing on it, and now CNN is "serializing" it. In talk radio, even Neal Boortz (www.boortz.com) is beginning to understand its systemic failures of the infrastructure! (Rush Limbaugh next?)

As people become more aware, more will see they need to prepare to be independent of government milk cow - those of us who are trying to get others to prepare will find that convincing people that the problem exists at all is simplified, if not eliminated altogether.

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 27, 1998.


Robert, I think you're right on about people becoming aware I just wonder how many will actually take measures to get themselves prepared. Also, what will that increase in awareness and preparation mean to supply chains?

Here it is, December 27th and only a few short days away from 1999. The awareness snowball is starting to gain speed and size.

Mike ==================================================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), December 27, 1998.



"Meet the Press" talked about Y2K for a brief time this morning. Pat Robertson, D. P. Moynihan and ex press secretary Mike McCurry babbled for a few minutes about it. Moynihan said they are working on it and have it under control. MCCurry said he was going to hunker down during the roll over.

-- Anti-Chainsaw (Tree@hugger.com), December 27, 1998.

....but as you can see from this kind of answer, the conclusions reached by different people with different agendas (different instructions from the "powers that be" ?) will be different.

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 27, 1998.

Anti-Chainsaw,

And Pat Robertson also said we would have "severe depression" and a "stock market crash." While the other's seemed to say the U.S is "on top of it," however the rest of the world is not.

Perceptions, perceptions.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 27, 1998.


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