Never Been Done Before …
This Wednesday, a day after we narrowly avoid being hit by an asteroid, America will face yet another threat: television interruption. On November 9th, the FCC, FEMA, Homeland Security, and the National Weather Service will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. Mediaite reports this is the organizations’ “first all-inclusive, national test,” and it will occur at 2 p.m. EST. For a couple minutes this week, there will be nothing on TV. May God help us all.
The FCC and other organizations routinely run “state-level monthly tests and local-level weekly tests,” but never before has a comprehensive country-wide interruption taken place. FEMA and the FCC “will use the results of this nationwide test to assess the reliability and effectiveness of the EAS as a public alert mechanism.”
Obama campaign message will follow …
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