Local NBC affiliate airs "Y2K: Fact or Fiction"

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Two-minute piece which showed footage from the Midwest Y2K Expo, along with on-camera interviews from Expo attendees and vendors, and prepared PR statements from local utility, banking industry, etc.

Their conclusion: They stated that it was a MYTH ("MYTH" was on screen in big, bold letters) that there would be power outages (seemingly of any scale or duration), because the local utility is "working on it and has been for years and feels pretty confident" etc. But they did quote an expo attendee, who said "The grid's going down for months, maybe years." ARGH.

It was also declared a MYTH that your money isn't safe. This is because the banks are "working on it and have been for years and feel pretty confident" etc.

Stellar job. I "myth" investigative journalism.

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), February 24, 1999

Answers

FWIW, the station is WTMJ, Channel 4 in Milwaukee. "TMJ" stands for The Milwaukee Journal, the only paper in town, which owns the station.

The MJ's editorial stance is that Y2K "will probably be solved".

One step forward (The Washington Post), two steps back.

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), February 24, 1999.


Steve, like myths to the flame ;-)
TMJ is the jaw tension you get while reading it
Your PowerPoint presentation must be over 400 by now!
So many quotes every day. Go Steve!

Thank you so much for compiling your presentations and posting here.

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-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), February 24, 1999.


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