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Topic: Bus Trouble
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Randy Stankey
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Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-04-2001 11:16 AM
Yes, Freddie! I was just going to say the same thing. I think the news is getting "trigger happy". It's kind of like a "decompression" thing. They have been so jacked up for the last three weeks that they are reporting every little detail as if it were a "possible terrorist attack".That can be a good thing, keeping us on our toes, but I think they are going overboard. I think they need to delay some news stories like this for a few minutes to an hour to give themselves time to sort it out. Just like that airline in India... At first, it was reported as a "possibe" attack. Then it was a "probable" attack. After a couple hours it was found out that the plane was NEVER in danger. It turned out that some idiot called in a threat to the control tower and they radioed the pilot that he should take precautions. He locked himself into the cockpit. (The right thing to do.) Of course, the passengers noticed something was up and assumed the worst. People on either side of the cockpit door assumed that the other was in trouble. Nobody was talking to each other. When the plane got onto the ground at its destination, the military surrounded the plane and found out that there was no danger. That's all well and good. What happened was probably what SHOULD have happened. Being careful is good. However, I was listening to the news on the radio last night. (Driving in the car.) NPR news was reporting "possible" attack, then they reported that it was a "false alarm". I switched over to a feed from the local TV station. THEIR news was reporting that the plane was ACTUALLY under the attack! NPR and BBC news had already "cleared" the incident, more than a half hour before! The local TV station never even bothered to get updates before they went on-air with the story! If I had the phone number to the station I would have called them up on the cell phone and cussed them out. I'm still thinking about it if I can figure out what station it was. It was "channel 6" from western Virginia, in the area of Wytheville, VA.
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