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Fwd: FC: Feds plan Y2K spin control
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Tue Jan 26 13:02:48 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:41:52 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17527.html
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> Feds Plan Y2K Spin Control
> by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
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> 3:00 a.m. 26.Jan.99.PST
> WASHINGTON -- Fears of Y2K panic have
> prompted the federal government to
> begin quietly preparing a media strategy
> designed to assuage public fears of
> blackouts or other potential infrastructure
> failures.
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> John Koskinen, assistant to President
> Clinton and chairman of the White
> House's Y2K council, has entered into
> discussions with a public-relations firm,
> Wired News has learned. The firm has
> recommended conducting awareness
> surveys and honing a "stay-calm"
> message based on the results.
>
> [...]
>
> At the council meeting, the Federal
> Communications Commission's Marsha
> MacBride and the US Postal Service's
> Richard Weirich reportedly suggested a
> federal project to monitor the public's
> reaction to Y2K. An Agriculture
> Department representative complained
> that the agency's most frequent
> telephone inquiry has become: "How
> many cans of food should I stockpile for
> my family?"
>
> [...]
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