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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (23)	8/7/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: Jeff Mizer	Read Replies (2) of 662

Ron - All nationalpost.com About Y2K movie being stopped... excerpt- As things stand, if you want to get to the truth about Y2K, the Internet is the place to find it. Check out Y2K Newswire's essay called Y2K Disconnect. It describes "a mysterious psychology that allows people of all walks of life to selectively ignore a mountain of evidence that Y2K is not only unsolved at this moment -- it is unsolvable in the time remaining." It lists 36 instances, such as: "If Y2K were solved, the [Federal Aviation Administration] would have tested all airport and en route radar control systems rather than just the Denver systems. " Or read how it discovered the North American Electric Reliability Council has been feeding boilerplate passages to its members for media consumption. The group has a fascinating essay on how media organizations have scuttled Y2K coverage. Typically, it writes, some Y2K programmer in a company informs a journalist about some discrepancy between Y2K remediation and the official corporate spin on the firm's Y2K readiness. The editors take the scoop and contact the senior manager at the corporation and mutually decide there is no discrepancy. End of story.

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