[EAS] Fallout Over False Alert Continues

[Dave Kline]

I spent the first half of my career trying to fix "stoopid".
In my later years I stopped trying to fix "stoopid".
I realized, that to truly succeed at fixing "stoopid" I would have to become just as "stoopid" as what I was trying to fix just to understand how to fix it.
If that became the case, I would then be too "stoopid" to realize it needed fixing.

In my opinion, the system did NOT break in this case. 
Rather someone did something they were not supposed to do.
And that someone whoever it is, IS in our business.

Head in the sand, an excuse does not make.

As long as the opposable thumbs are involved, EAS will never be perfect.
But it also cannot function without "the thumbs" being involved and there will be mistakes.
But was this really a mistake? 
Or are those who should take APPROPRIATE action simply afraid to do so and therefore are just calling it a mistake? 
Fixing this particular nontechnical problem with technology seems a bit out of whack to me.

If that big, fat, fine that was recently levied on content producers and distributors did not send a message, then the only fix for THAT is to deal directly with the opposable thumbs that still think doing something like this is not a big deal. 
Don't make a difficult to manage system, more difficult to manage for everyone else just because one person decides to not play by the rules, if that is what happened.

If the story is true, that someone was retaliating against an EAS alert happening during the World Series, by intentionally inserting an EAS alert within their own program... well isn't that kind of like swatting a fly on your head with a frying pan? It ain't very smart, and it will be, and should be, painful.

On a side note. In the story about the EAS interruption to the World Series...
Does anyone know if the alert was a test that maybe could have been rescheduled?
Or was it an actual alert warning viewers/listeners of some potential danger?

"I'm sorry m'am, we cannot run the amber alert for your abducted child until the ball game is over."

Dave 
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Dave Kline   UNO-TV / KVNO
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