From ottilie@u.washington.edu Sat Dec 19 17:43:09 1998 Received: from becker2.u.washington.edu (ottilie@becker2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.68]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id RAA32486 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:43:09 -0800 Received: from localhost (ottilie@localhost) by becker2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id RAA06390 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:43:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:43:07 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Petersen" To: mediawatch@u.washington.edu Subject: -- Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII It would be interesting, if all events had to happen, if the bus accident from three weeks ago had occurred today, along with the snow and Iraq and the impeachment, and we could see which would be put as the lead story on television news. I watched the KOMO 4 broadcast at 5am, or the first 20 minutes of it, and their lead story was Stormwatch 98. They devoted the first 9.5-10 minutes of the broadcast to this and had the traffic guy and steve pool and reporters in the passes interviewing people trying to put on their chains and etc. And only after all this did they do a relatively short thing on Iraq and the impeachment which garnered more like 4-5 minutes. The Westlake protesters got 15 seconds. I was just wondering if they had done a poll to see what their audience would consider most important or who was making this decision. .