The Minot toxic spill and senator Dorgan's outrage is appropriate

" When a train derailment in the middle of the night released a frightening cloud of anhydrous ammonia, Minot police sought to notify the citizenry of the crisis. They called KCJB, the station designated as the local emergency broadcaster, but no one was home; the station was being run by computer, automatically passing along Clear Channel programming from another city.

Clear Channel argues that only a technical glitch prevented word from getting through. But glitches aside, the six stations now have only one news employee among them."

Radio is key in disasters. Why do this?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/20...