Wednesday, November 9, 2011

*BREAKING* National Emergency Alert System FAILURE? Washington Post

Washington post

At 2 p.m. the United States prepared for a national Emergency Alert test. Would the Emergency Alert System work? The Federal Emergency Management Agency wanted to test its ability to send messages out to the entire country via a 30-second television and radio interruption.
No alerts on screen at 2 p.m. in The Post newsroom. (Melissa Bell)

So, how’d it go?

The results likely won’t come back for some time, but in the Post newsroom, the initial reaction was less than impressed. Television channels switched the alert on at different times; some did not switch it on at all.

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