[EAS] FCC Seeks Comment on Multilingual EAS

[Clay Freinwald]

In this day, and political climate, I'm afraid that the term ' Bipartisan'
is not a call to action but rather a call to arms.

Unfortunately, like many matters of this type, it will take a major disaster
for the politicians to let their guard down (and their political leadership)
and (perhaps) do something for the good of the order.   Will this happen in
my lifetime ?    At this stage all we can do is hope and, perhaps, rub their
noses in it every chance we get.

Clay Freinwald
(Recalling when the dirt was ordered) 

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Richard Rudman

Bill is right (as usual)

To expand on Bill's thought below, and explain why EPI is important, you
have to take to heart the definition of "warning" in this context:

A warning provides clear and timely protective actions to be taken by a
portion of the public whose lives and property are at imminent risk.

This is my adaptation of the definition of "warning" that goes to the heart
of what EPI is all about that came from Partnership for Public Warning (PPW)
reports back in 2002 and 2003 .

Stated another way, it is not enough to tell people at risk to "head for the
hills." You have to tell them which hills to head for, what they need to
take with them, what route to take, and what to do when they get there.

As I said in an earlier post on this thread, EPI in my opinion is a legal
and moral duty of government. Our job is to get their EPI to the public.
There is an element of shared responsibility here, but the specifics were
never clear during the 50's and 60's and have been further blurred over time
for a number of reasons.

I have not given up hope yet that the United States can have the national
warning policy the PPW called for a decade ago. Congress will someday see
this as a bipartisan necessity, hopefully sooner rather than later.

Richard Rudman

On Mar 14, 2014, at 8:20 PM, Bill Ruck wrote:

>On one hand the public deserves the best Emergency Public Information 
>possible.  Technology exists today to do this.

__________________________________________________________
The EAS Forum Discussion List is hosted by the BWWG (Broadcast Warning
Working Group). http://eas.radiolists.net Please invite your friends to join
our Forum! The sign up is at:
http://lists.radiolists.net/mailman/listinfo/eas
___________________________________________________________