On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 03:49:52PM -0700, jim bell wrote:
"Did the PI hear of this incident?". (There were presumably at least 100 people in the courthouse or nearby when this incident occurred: one might think that it would be very unlikely if ALL of them didn't call the news media.) Naturally, she had to point out that they were being "good citizens" by NOT reporting"every bomb threat". I should have asked her if
I hate to defend my colleagues, but this is reasonable. I don't know if bomb threats that turn out to be fake are inherently newsworthy. I would probably have made the same decision, given limited resources. Unless there was some evidence that this was a pattern of threats, etc.
At the time, though not publicly, I speculated that to try to counteract this, a small counter-media organization might be formed, containing as little as a sole individual.. I figured that it would announce itself as a sounding-board for this kind of thing. It would receive, anonymously, any sort of announcement, statement, threat, promise, warning, etc. It would combine these anonymous snippets, and deliver them (quite openly, in a recorded and documented fashion) to all the various news media organizations that might otherwise want to ignore what was being said. Since this
What you're describing could well be a competing publication. You'd presumably have greater legal protection that way in any case. I can see it now: "CJ and JB's BombNewsWire" -Declan