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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues

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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1105)2/27/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
'The media is a sleeping watchdog on Y2K

Alan Greenspan's testimony to the US Senate Banking Committee that includes some words about Y2K has gone unreported by the US online media. Of the following newspapers, not one carries the story today in its business section.

Boston Globe
Washington Post
Miami Herald
LA Times
Seattle Times
Chicago Tribune
Nando Times (Raleigh)
Dallas Morning News

USA today is one high-profile news organization that did report it and there may be others. But I would consider the list above to be a good sampling of major newspapers

We all know that Greenspan's testimony can make Wall Street tremble; we saw that happen last year. But apparently this isn't the issue for these papers. I'm not sure what happened here, the Washington Post and the Seattle Times, to name only two, are papers that I would describe as Y2K-aware, but they missed on this one. I guess they would rather run stories about Bill & Monica.

JR'

From: Jim Rivera <jamesrw@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000
Subject: Greenspan and the media-the dog didn't bark in the night
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