Emergency Broadcast: Difference between revisions

The Emergency Broadcast is a means of public warning and public annoyance alike. Hearing an '''Emergency Broadcast''' warning of actual danger may lead to [[Oh Crap]], [[Mass "Oh Crap"]], the need for [[Bring My Brown Pants|one's brown pants to be brought]] - in that way it may be the ultimate [[Brown Note]]. On the other hand, a test or a warning of something that doesn't affect you (e.g. a missing child warning, a flood when you're on high ground, a tsunami when you're 100 miles inland) may be a [[Berserk Button]] and lead to frustration with [[Crying Wolf]]. Another frequent frustration is when an actual alert has such horrible sound quality you can't understand what's being said. In manythe countries,worst disasters? Broadcasters may have already broken away from their routine entertainment or news programming with a [[AtomicWe HateInterrupt This Broadcast]] wasor the[[This primaryJust reasonIn]], forso the systemthere's creation,no andpoint itactivating eventuallyan (andautomated thankfully)Emergency endedBroadcast upsystem neverto beinginterrupt usedlive forcoverage thatof purpose and being usedthe forsame manybreaking othersnews.