Re: Local media non-coverage?

[Ry Jones <rjones@moscow.com>]

At 11:51 AM 8/27/99 , sec@moscow.com wrote:
>bussiness), why bother having news (or rather, "speculation" as I
>have taken to refering to it of late.) at all? if we can't trust it to
>provide us with timly and accurate information, is it not doing us all a
>disservice? if we make decisions based on inacurate "news", well,
>how can we make an informed decision on things?

That's what the internet is for. Get beyond dead trees. If you want to know 
what's going on in this community, go to Radio Shack and pick up a cheap 
police/fire scanner and a good antenna (spend some dough on a nice antenna 
and throw away the one that comes with it). Then listen. Why, just the 
other night I got to hear someone fell off a bridge here in Latah County. 
Didn't hear about that, eh? Well he fell into a creek and got wet. The 
officer said he was OK... everyone on the radio was laughing about it. He 
said they may have even got it on video.

There's all kinds of good stuff going on.

I heard two cops trying to catch a black and purple crotch rocket a week 
ago. The exchange went something like this:
Is he coming my way?
Yeah.
Is it Paul?
No, I think it's Tom.

You know you're in trouble when the cops know you by sight.

This stuff is good to listen to and it keeps you in the loop. I knew not to 
even bother calling the police about two abandoned cars in front of my 
apartment complex because the dispatcher told one of them that "your 
abandoned vehicle from xxx is now in front of yyy". It was towed within a 
few hours. Also, you get to see the cops as people when you listen to the 
crap they have to deal with.
--
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
   -- Gandhi