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Anne Broache
"In an age of omnipresent mobile phone, internet and BlackBerry users, why does government rely primarily on analogue television and radio to beam its national emergency alerts?
Politicians asked that question - and urged support for legislation aimed at expanding the Cold War-era system. The hearing focused primarily on the Warning, Alert and Response Network, or Warn Act. That bill calls for government and the private sector to devise a "voluntary" national alert system capable of transmitting messages "across the greatest possible variety of communications technologies", including wireless devices and the internet."
