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WINS, 880 & NY TV drop ball on bomb

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BabyDJ

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There's a car packed with explosives in Times Square on a Saturday night. At 10pm, WINS leads with the immigration rallies while WCBS 880 has the oil spill in the national news. 2, 4 & 7 do not interrupt programming... 5 & 11 have something on it but only because they are in their news hours.

Very very poor work by the local newsrooms caught napping on a Saturday night. A friend of mine in the city knew it was a possible bomb by what he heard on his Police Radio.... you would think somewhere some newsroom would have a police scanner????
 
The EAS should have been activated for this on all radio stations broadcasting from within 10 miles of NYC. People would notice something like this if it interrupts every station and word would spread from the drivers of the cars that are listening to the radio to the people walking on the streets quicker than the police can evacuate everyone.

There also should have been a mass text message alert sent to all users connected to the cell towers in the evacuation zone.

Instead, we have the EAS go off when it rains 50 miles away.
 
BabyDJ said:
There's a car packed with explosives in Times Square on a Saturday night. At 10pm, WINS leads with the immigration rallies while WCBS 880 has the oil spill in the national news. 2, 4 & 7 do not interrupt programming... 5 & 11 have something on it but only because they are in their news hours.

Very very poor work by the local newsrooms caught napping on a Saturday night. A friend of mine in the city knew it was a possible bomb by what he heard on his Police Radio.... you would think somewhere some newsroom would have a police scanner????
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What would you expect from the "week-end guys"?

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
If you have something like this in a concentrated area like Times Square, it is more efficient to use a PA system than to use mass media. No reason to tell people in the suburbs to evacuate, when the problem is in a small area in Manhattan.

The other thing is that no one really knew it was a bomb until after 11PM.

But the call on this is supposed to be made by authorized emergency officials. If they want to use mass media to alert the public, it's at their disposal.
 
The transportation service for New York City has a slogan: "If you see something, say something."

I would imagine word of mouth was more reliable than depending on local news for this event...
 
There was coverage throughout the night on NY1, but it too was clearly not the A-string, I thought. And yeah, it was astonishing to see the local news channels asleep at the wheel, at least when I tuned in late last night. Maybe there was coverage earlier in the evening that I missed. I'm guessing that people weren't called in to work at various media outlets because the situation was defused early on, but it was still revealing and not in a good way. Just wondering what other people thought.
 
An EAS alert would get the message to more people quicker than a PA system can, then the word-of-mouth chain can reach everyone quicker.
 
Nick said:
An EAS alert would get the message to more people quicker than a PA system can, then the word-of-mouth chain can reach everyone quicker.
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They only needed to reach people in a ten block area. EAS is overkill.
 
The EAS goes off weekly for tests. I'm sure that people wouldn't
mind if it went off for an actual emergency.
 
Hindsight is great, of course. But since the bomb did not go off and no one was injured/killed, it is just as well that the media did not panic everyone.
 
jhguthlac said:
...it is just as well that the media did not panic everyone.
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If only we could say that if snow or a thunderstorm approaches the area... ::)
 
DToTheJ said:
jhguthlac said:
...it is just as well that the media did not panic everyone.
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If only we could say that if snow or a thunderstorm approaches the area... ::)
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Yeah, we are hearing the equivilent with the effects of the explosion of BP's oil rig in the Gulf.

You have these "experts" claiming the oil's going to make it to the East Coast beaches.

Everybody is jumping on board the "sky is falling, Algore, we're all gonna die" bandwagon.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
badjef said:
Everybody is jumping on board the "sky is falling, Algore, we're all gonna die" bandwagon.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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While it's very trendy among the con-oscenti to mock the former vice president by playing games with his name, you diminish yourself when you refer so disrespectfully to him -- a man who, unlike most of his critics, put his country ahead of himself when he was put in that situation.

This is totally inappropriate. Let's keep it to radio, shall we?
 
Anita Bonita said:
badjef said:
Everybody is jumping on board the "sky is falling, Algore, we're all gonna die" bandwagon.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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While it's very trendy among the con-oscenti to mock the former vice president by playing games with his name, you diminish yourself when you refer so disrespectfully to him -- a man who, unlike most of his critics, put his country ahead of himself when he was put in that situation.
This is totally inappropriate. Let's keep it to radio, shall we?
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It IS radio as it is one of the vehicles used for repeating irresponsible behavior.

We don't know what caused the oil rig explosion. It is suspicious at best - criminal at worse.

We also don't need people finger pointing and making unwarranted conclusions and being repeated by those in the media who should know better than to repeat it because it makes for good "television".

The post started on the Saturday night Times Square thwarted bomber and how the local media "dropped the ball" on reporting it.

At the risk of a "TIO": As far as Algore, he has put himself in the situation by being irresponsible and name-calling. As far as I'm concerned, HE is the "Flat-Earther" he has labeled and complains about.

And the word is “conoscenti”.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conoscenti

Thanks, you taught me peeps a new word. :)

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
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