[EAS] WEA used in NYC bombings

[Richard_Rudman]

Mike:

I get that you feel "disconcerted" when the public is directed to actual news sources while they may be tuned in to stations that neither have the capability nor the interest in doing anything that passes for news. Your stations have evidently made a value judgement that informing the public about real time events is not important to their business model. I feel "disconcerted" when broadcasters, some of whom are my clients, have adopted business models that have ditched real time news coverage. Can we at least agree to feel "disconcerted" together on this issue?

Informing a public at risk about things that can impact lives and safety goes back to the start of broadcasting. For the record, I am "concerted" by those few broadcasters who still think that is still important at a dwindling number of stations. My feelings on this issue come from my 27 years working at Group W's and later CBS's KFWB, a 24/7 "All News" station that is survived here in Los Angeles by All News KNX who hired most of reporters left in town who cut their teeth at KFWB.

Richard

> On Sep 20, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
> 
> Moreover, it is disconcerting to me as a non-news station operator that
> the public ostensibly be directed away from our station to the one or two
> (not necessarily co-owned) stations carrying up to the second news. Did
> WLTW or any of the big non-CBS music stations break format for
> dissemination of suspect information?