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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (5304)	4/5/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

Cheeky - Like I said, Y2K is full of hype. No question that the hype is way outta control... but that doesn't mean that it isn't also a big, nasty problem. If there were major problems that were being kept quiet, I'll bet you there are reporters that would dreul for those stories and would dig and dig until they found them. Don't bet on it. Except for one teeny, tiny detail... reporters & their editors simply do not consider Y2K a serious story. "We've covered it. It's not news. My editor's not interested." One of the great educations I've learned over the past five years is how the press works. Not that I'd want their job (writing to constantly shifting deadlines), but they're simply not equiped to understand the complexities of systems... simply too many moving pieces coated in virtually impenetrable jargon. Heck, it's hard enough to grok systems when you work on them as a software professional. Until some really big company goes publicly face down in the mud & doesn't get up, we'll not see serious coverage in the press. [I'll not comment on TV coverage since I don't want to be banned for profanity... my blood pressure is still up about 150 points from watching "Hard Copy" last night!!!! Bloody Awful] Example... in today's Wall Street Journal, a good Y2K piece on e-commerce/Internet risks was buried on page B7A. - David