•Report on visit to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (March 26 post)
•Qualifications to write about this stuff (see January 13 post)
It’s been three weeks since NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr. was sent a letter about his agency’s alleged prohibition of direct (telephonic) media contacts to issue tsunami warnings. We’re left to wonder whether his response will repudiate communications protocols that actually prohibit telephone calls to major international news media to issue urgent warnings.
I would hope reporters everywhere would react the way I did upon learning of this policy – with incredulity. Newcomers to this site are encouraged to read the letter here as well as the questions it contained at a separate posting.
For a two-part report on my March 25 visit and meeting with the director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center that first revealed the policy, click on the link above.
Doug Carlson
Honolulu, HI
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