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The omnipotence of television is so taken for granted these days that viewers are no longer amazed when a crackdown in Beijing or a hostage crisis in Beirut magically materializes in their living room. Far more surprising, and a bit unnerving, was the eerie sensation Tuesday night: the tidy coherence...
Immediate gratification has become a hallmark of the age of mobile uplinks. "The new satellite technology is wonderful," says NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, "but it's made us hostage to our expectations that information can be instantaneous." Tuesday night was a reminder that there are limits to what even television...
This is not to minimize the dazzling feats that the networks and their affiliates were able to pull off. Howard Stringer, the president of CBS Broadcast Group, was parking his car at Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit, and he subsequently spent hours searching for a working telephone or open...
The enormous energy and resources that Californians have invested in getting ready for the Big One were amply rewarded last week. Since 1971, construction codes have been tightened, buildings have been reinforced, emergency backup water supplies and communications systems have been secured. In communities throughout the state, fire and police...
Perhaps the most important planning efforts concerned ways of coping in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. quickly shut off power in San Francisco to minimize chances that a spark might ignite gas leaking from ruptured lines. As a result, only seven buildings were lost...