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FR scoops the wires
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| 25 Sept 03
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Posted on 09/25/2003 4:40:37 PM PDT by Lokibob
FR does it again:
Here are selected articles from a google search on the quake in Japan.
I converted all the times to EDT of the articles I found.
It would appear that FR once again scooped AP, UP, VOA, CNN by at least 40 mins.
This is the FR post, note the time:
8.0 Earthquake in Japan
EDIS | 9/25/03 | EDIS
Posted on 09/25/2003 4:17 PM edt by BlownChevelle
Major Quake Hits Japan North Island of Hokkaido
Thu September 25, 2003 04:57 PM ET
UP
Magnitude 8 Earthquake Strikes Northern Japan
VOA News
25 Sep 2003,4:59 edt
Strong Earthquake Rattles Northern Japan
Thursday September 25, 2003 17:49 PM edt
Associated Press Writer
TOPICS: Extended News; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: earthquake; japan; scoop
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Way to go Freepers.
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:40:37 PM PDT
by
Lokibob
To: Lokibob
WE ARE THE WORLD!!!!!
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:44:10 PM PDT
by
LADY J
To: Lokibob
I keep telling my conservative friends they'll sometimes see it here first... a few have come on over.
3
posted on
09/25/2003 4:45:43 PM PDT
by
Eala
(quag-mire (kwag’mÌre, kwäg’mÌre) noun. Democrat presidential aspirations)
To: Lokibob
Yawn. Typical. We're used to it.
;)
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:48:04 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(Hence, etc.)
To: LADY J
A more comprehensive search may turn up other articles closer in time, but I'd bet nobody beat us.
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:49:03 PM PDT
by
Lokibob
To: Lokibob
I find it interesting that even FNC will have an in depth story days after we've already hashed it to pieces. Sometimes they'll phrase something just like posts here.
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:52:33 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
To: mtbopfuyn
> even FNC
FNC is great for analysis, not great for breaking news.
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:58:19 PM PDT
by
old-ager
To: mtbopfuyn
You're right. I used to think Rush was always a step ahead of the media, but now I get news from FR before even Rush gets to it. Sometimes, I have been reading a thread when Rush starts talking about it!
If Rush is 'show prep' for the media, is FR show prep for Rush?
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:59:23 PM PDT
by
radiohead
To: Lokibob
Nice try, but am I supposed to click on the link to figure out the timeline?
Whatever - We get it done here. By pure luck, I was on-line watching Columbia's ill-fated re-entry. We got an article in the NY Times off that
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posted on
09/25/2003 5:16:24 PM PDT
by
don-o
To: don-o
Oh no, all I did was copy the headines with times on the first few I found in a google news search. I didn't intend for anybody to follow links to read the articles.
The post was a vanity. I have always told people that if you want to keep up with the news, FR is where to do it.
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posted on
09/25/2003 5:22:19 PM PDT
by
Lokibob
To: AmericanInTokyo
You OK, sensei?
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posted on
09/25/2003 5:25:16 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Great Googlymoogly!)
To: Lokibob
We'll always have the advantage. Newspapers and wire services are corporations. Everyone here is a potential reporter who can post 10 seconds after learning something.
However, we don't get everything right, either. SCREAMING FIGHTER JETS OVER WASHINGTON DC might be a breaking news vanity here that turns out to have zero news value.
Still, I'll take FR over any other source of news and commentary on the planet.
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posted on
09/25/2003 5:29:08 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Lokibob
Today's NY Times reported Jane Fonda contributed $13MM (yes, that's thirteen million dollars) over the past three years to so-called 527 committees (page A22, column 4). Out of a total of $496MM, the Democraps had two-thirds, Pubbies one-third.
Finance reform indeed.
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posted on
09/25/2003 5:33:08 PM PDT
by
spald
To: radiohead
FR is definitely show prep for Rush. I usually read about neat stuff about 3 days before Rush brings it up. That is why Rush bad mouths FR. TO keep the world frrom knowing that FR is better than and prior to EIB.
To: radiohead; Ronin
There are plenty of "professional" journalists, columnists, reporters, editors and media types that lift entire "logical progressions" of conversations on FR and write it up as original copy. Jonah Goldberg has made a career of it, IMHO. To my surprise, Drudge once pulled a long rant post I typed up and used it for his Sunday night radio program.
Ronin, how are the Japanese responding? Feel any aftershocks your way?
To: Lokibob
I have always told people that if you want to keep up with the news, FR is where to do it. That is all that needs to be said.
And the most valuable thing is we get the news, both from the talking heads, and real people who see things going on.
Let me expand on the Columbia crash, which got us a mention in the NY Times. I logged on to FR on that Saturday morning, clicked a thread about the re-entry. Since I do not have cable, I opened NASA-TV. This was about 20 minutes before she should have landed.
So, I was running both NASA and FR and the freepers were knowing that the news was not at all good. I believe the networks and wires got the story about thirty minutes later.
There was even a Freeper in, I think, Houston, who saw her break up and reported to the board, again well before the other media had the story.
Oh, and if you are not an monthly supporter, as I am, at ten bucks, you might click on the home page link to donate and eliminate the sure to come Freepathon, and help keep the pixels on.
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posted on
09/25/2003 5:58:16 PM PDT
by
don-o
To: Lokibob
We were first with the Russian submarine sinking and a whole lot of others. It happens more than you might think. "Free Republic: The Napster of News."
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:28:20 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: radiohead
is FR show prep for Rush? Rush definately peruses FR. I've read things here that wern't anyplace else and Ruah came up with it. After all we are thousands. Rush has good researchers, but their numbers are limited.
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:46:19 PM PDT
by
chainsaw
To: Lokibob
"Way to go Freepers. "Monday, September 15, 2003 Posted: 0527 GMT ( 1:27 PM HKT)
Tremor-prone Tokyo was last hit by a major earthquake in 1923.
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TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A Japanese researcher is causing a stir in Tokyo with a prediction based on his study of radio waves
that a major destructive earthquake is highly likely to hit the city this week.
Yoshio Kushida, a well-known self-taught astronomer who runs his own observatory just outside Tokyo,
published on its Internet site his prediction that a quake with a magnitude of "7" or greater was likely to strike the
metropolitan area on Tuesday or Wednesday.
well....sorta....this guy got it a week ago...
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:46:31 PM PDT
by
hoot2
To: Lokibob
There's a lot of shocked faces. When people think Earthquakes in Japan, they usually don't think Hokkaido. This one was pretty messy too.
Not so much in the way of injuries because Hokkaido is sparsely populated compared to the rest of the country, but there will probably be more reported after they start checking the isolated farms.
My sweetie and I are going to hold our own earthquake drill tomowrrow. We have a basic kit and some supplies, but we need to look at it all again seriously. I have a funny feeling in my gut that it's going to be Tokyo's turn soon.
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posted on
09/25/2003 7:24:16 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(When the fox gnaws -- smile!)
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