White House Y2K Report or is it?

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The report, which takes the form of a brief speech by President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion Chair John Koskinen, will, each week, provide a short synopsis of the state of Y2K readiness nationwide.

"Good progress on Y2K continues to be made nationally by those who provide critical services to the American people. However, there are still risks of serious Y2K failures in some towns, cities and counties," Koskinen said in the first taped report.

Reporters can access the radio actuality line - which is intended for use by the news media only - by calling a phone number provided by the White House press office.

Once dialed in, reporters can listen to and record a number of taped speeches and sound bites from the President and others in the administration.

In his first report, Koskinen again urged state and local governments to schedule "community conversations" to increase public awareness of Y2K issues.

As Federal government agencies quicken their pace toward full Y2K compliance, the President's Council has increasingly focused on educational efforts.

The community conversations are the council's best means to ameliorate pubic fears, according to Koskinen.

The conversations typically bring together the "key service providers" in a given community, including the phone and power companies as well as local government representatives and concerned citizens.

The events have a very local focus and when Koskinen attends one of the discussions his role largely is supportive, according to the President's Council.

-- y2k dave (
xsdaa111@hotmail.com), July 21, 1999

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Link doesn't work.

-- Sorry Dave (hal@9000.com), July 21, 1999.

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-- Bob (bob@bob.bob), July 21, 1999.

Reporters can access the radio actuality line - which is intended for use by the news media only - by calling a phone number provided by the White House press office.

Now there's a term we haven't heard before: "the radio actuality line". Sounds like something from the Firesign Theatre, doesn't it?

Aren't bureaucrats cute with the new phrases they come up with? Makes you just want to give 'em a biiiiiig hug, and then just keep squeezing until their eyes bug out and their faces turn blue...

Sorry. My family may be at risk due to massive inaction at many levels, and now with about 160 days left, these cretins have set up a radio actuality line. Just something about it that ticks me off.

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), July 21, 1999.


Yes Mac, it's 'something' alright.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 21, 1999.

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