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Re: Powerful earthquake off southern New Zealand coast

Jason — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:27:00 -0000

BNO news

thanks for the all the updates on twitter

Re: Powerful earthquake off southern New Zealand coast

BNO News — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:43:35 -0000

The tsunami warning centers only issue tsunami warnings when there is a realistic risk a destructive tsunami may strike. The fact that the earthquake struck off a fairly unpopulated region of New Zealand does not matter (it does for the New Zealand warning) but destructive tsunamis can travel many hundreds of thousands of miles far. Populated areas in Australia would have a significant risk if a destructive tsunami had been generated.

Re: Powerful earthquake off southern New Zealand coast

Ross — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:37:38 -0000

On this occasion, the 7.8 earthquake was in a remote and unpopulated region. Any tsunami was going to take several hours to get to any population centres such as the coast of Australia. (There were no New Zealand towns in the path of any possible tsunami).
Is that why the media didn't hype the story up perhaps?

Re: Powerful earthquake off southern New Zealand coast

BNO News — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:19:29 -0000

Robert:

Whenever we use other sources we always cite them as being the source. We fully covered this story without the use of other media.

The news organizations are indeed facing cutbacks in newsrooms but yet, we as a small group, are able to beat them on breaking news stories. And not through aggregation, we do enough of our own news reporting.

Re: Powerful earthquake off southern New Zealand coast

Mike Hovis — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:14:27 -0000

It always amazes me how we are spoon fed our "coverage." When it comes time for the news, be diligent, ask why, get a second opinion, think outside the coverage, er Box!

Re: Powerful earthquake off southern New Zealand coast

Robert French — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:13:43 -0000

Sure, it would be great if major news organizations could report all these stories in real time. You do realize that with cutbacks almost all newsrooms are struggling.

That said, you repeatedly report the hard journalism work of others on your Twitter feed without citation and/or attribution of the works of others. How about getting your own house in order before you critique the works of others. You seem to want to use their work to serve your interests, yet you critique them, too. Hard to balance that rationale.

Also, this is your first post here since May 6th. Where is your indepth consistent reporting of such events. Certainly there have been more than the ones you site here?