On a "local" BBS, a question was just asked as to "why would the media ignore or mis-report Y2K, when the public backlash later would be so bad, and when they are so 'thorough' on ALL other topics?"

I'd like some links to essays and articles on the "journalistic irresponsibility" on Y2K, if I may. I know you guys have LOTS more info than *I* do.

Help, please?

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), July 26, 1999

Answers

Y2K and the Failure (So Far) of the Press (yes, I wrote this)...

Regards,
Scott Johnson
Editor,
y2ktoday

-- Scott Johnson (scojo@yahoo.com), July 26, 1999.

Also, see outstanding article from y2knewswire on the Gary North News Network (GNNN) titled "Y2K Bad News Stories Being Spiked!" posted today (7/26).

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), July 26, 1999.

Dennis, here is a good one!

Cracking the Mainstream Y2K News Process

-- flb (fben4077@yahoo.com), July 26, 1999.

Fast and Loose: Y2K Coverage in the Media

BTW, I wrote to the executive editor (Larry King) of the Omaha World- Herald. He said that the story was changed because a reporter following up on the original story talked to someone at state patrol who denied it was Y2K related. King also said that a follow-up story on July 9 did attribute the computer snafu to a Y2K compliance upgrade.

In reply, I told him that the only state-patrol story on July 9 that I could find did not mention Y2K. And I asked him to verify that he had written the "acronym" excuse to Helium (which had been posted here, as you may recall). But, King has not replied....

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), July 27, 1999.

"Y2K: The Press and Preventing Panic"

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-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), July 27, 1999.