[EAS] Can this be true?

[Barry Mishkind]

At 04:12 PM 1/23/2018, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
>The suggestion that a Tweet would have been the appropriate way to recover from a false alarm is, itself... alarming.
>
>I read the abstract of an academic paper this week that opened with the claim that, "Social media have become the tool of choice for public alerting."  That of course, begs the question of "whose choice?"

        True enough. 

        In some ways, it shows the regard the EMs have
        for the EAS.

        This should have been a teaching moment, to bring
        people together to solve the problems rather than
        highlight the same issues we've known for nearly 15 years now.