Reply #199: Free Press -Tsunami- US Media Blackout Of 'Massive Government Failings' [View All]

Free Press International
1.1.2005

http://www.freepressinternational.com/mainstream_television_blackout_8172a1200034.html

It's been 8 days since the 2004 Sumatra disaster and US mainstream television is near silent on the 'massive government failings' that could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

Early on Sunday morning, powerful computers in a Vienna office building received seismic data on the earthquake that spawned the devastating tsunamis across south Asia - information that might have saved lives in the hours between the quake and the waves hitting the coasts of Sri Lanka, India and several other countries. But the data streaming into the computers of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization served no purpose Sunday. The 300 staff are on vacation until Jan. 4.- International Herald Tribune