"DougL" <lampert.doug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Mike Schilling wrote:
>> DougL wrote:
>> > On Feb 27, 8:59 am, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> > wrote:
>> >> pullo wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> How about the China option? I'm no expert on the thechnical issues
>> >>> but my understanding is that China has at least made inroads into
>> >>> controlling the most uncontrollable form of information
>> >>> dissemination: the internet.
>> >>
>> >> Hera's an excellent description of what they
>> >> do:http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall
>> >>
>> >> The fascinating/discouraging thing is that they don't find it
>> >> necessary to make information impossible to access: making it
>> >> inconvenient suffices. Cf. the TV station in Alabama that pretended
>> >> to have "technical difficulties" playing an embarrassing 60 Minutes
>> >> re****t at its scheduled time and replayed it opposite the Oscars
>> >> instead.
>> >
>> > You have ANY evidence at all that WHNT faked it? I'm well aware that
>> > it's all over the internet that they did. Including the dramatic
>> > claim
>> > that they had a working transmitter. A piece of amazingly irrelevant
>> > information since the claims I've heard were all that the problem
>> > was
>> > with their feed not the transmitter.
>>
>> How coincidental is it that the outage began and end with that one
>> segment? Why did WHNT originally say that it was CBS's problem and
>> then recant? Why did they originally say "We'd love to rebroadcast it
>> but CBS won't let us?"
>>
>> They couldn't have acted more suspicious if they'd tried.
>
> Sure they could have. They could have simply NOT RUN ANY LOCAL
> PUBLICITY for the piece and substituted something else for that
> episode of 60 minutes. Which they have DONE when they don't like
> something CBS sends out. They know how to censor CBS.
So they didn't want to appear to be censoring the piece.
>
> We KNOW how WHNT censors stuff, and it's far more effective than this.
>
> Instead they ran lots of local publicity prior to the peice and
> managed to get the first rebroadcast within a day and the second
> within a week and the peice up on their website.
That is, when it turned into a giant embarrassment, they backed down.
> For that matter the
> owner owns multiple CBS affiliates, if censoring why didn't he do it
> at all of them.
Are any of the others in Alabama?
>
> The Huntsville Times, a longtime Siegleman sup****ter has said this
> theory is full of holes.
Unless one of us has first-hand knowledge (which I don't, anyway), we're
both just speculating. But if the outage was a coincidence, it was an
amazing one.
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