My articles on Y2K panic: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17527.html http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16618.html ********** http://www.msnbc.com/local/KNBC/88965.asp LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 GTE, the Southland's No. 2 telephone company, stirred Y2K hysteria when it warned 1.5 million customers to withdraw "a few weeks worth of extra cash" in case the Y2K bug bites. http://www.y2ktoday.com/modules/home/default.asp?id=804 ORANGE, Calif. (AP) _ California bank officials are not happy about a telephone company's newsletter that advised its 1.5 million customers to withdraw extra cash before the dawn of the new millennium. ********** From: "Alan Docherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Declan McCullagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: British Y2K news Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:09:37 -0000 http://www.excite.co.uk/news/news_story/technology/tech7.txt TV SHOW 'IRRESPONSIBLE' SAYS ACTION 2000 last updated 06/02/99 14:02 Thousands of people called the Government's "millennium bug" hotline after seeing an item on daytime TV that mentioned "scenes of panic" and "centuries without water or light" as possible results of the millennium computer problem. The feature, broadcast during the This Morning with Richard and Judy show, was dubbed "irresponsible and dangerous" by Action 2000, the Government's official campaign body and organiser of the telephone hotline. [...] Gwynneth Flower, director of Action 2000, said the piece was "the most irresponsible and dangerous" journalism she had yet seen about the millennium bug. "The only reason that people might panic is if the likes of Richard and Judy scare them into it. We were worried about the bug biting early, but it has clearly bitten them in the head," she said. [...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
