"I'm convinced that 24-hour news channels are the greatest threat
to our country in terms of preventing us from [assessing rick and
figuring out how to mitigate it]. The media goes for the sensation,
and 24-hour media takes that and repeats it like a mad echo chamber.
The result is a distortion of the truth and a destruction of the
usefulness of the medium. We can't assess risk properly as a country with
that as the basis which we use to do so." --
scooterbird,
2007-04-20?