Friday, August 15, 2003 :::
The baseball game (to which I referred in my most recent post) was fun to watch, especially in the last inning, where the defenses started to sag (though the game did end on a double-play). It probably would have been fun even if the team I was cheering for had lost.
One more note on black-out coverage: I don't remember exact phrases that they used last night (or who my first news source was), but I had the distinct impression, near the beginning, that the black-out was only hitting major cities. NYC, Toronto, Ottawa, Detroit, etc. were mentioned, rather than "New York, parts of New Jersey, Ontario, Ohio," etc. Presumably this was just their way of describing the general geographic area -- or maybe because their initial information was from the large cities, and they weren't certain whether or not power was on in Ithaca or Lake Placid -- but they didn't say "a large region, including such cities as..." -- whomever I first heard the story from was just talking about power being out in these large cities. If the goal was to increase the chances that I'd think of terrorism, well, it worked.
::: posted by Steven at 5:48 PM
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