PV_Premier

Wow.

dayone

And I thought some of the reactions to AS' F meals were overdone.

beckoa

No, anything with shrooms in it should be denied boarding.

notquiteaff

So what are you suggesting? That AS' social media marketing team, instead of carefully designing and planning a campaign, posts each message "live", moments after thorough review of late breaking news? That they have someone sit around 24/7 to kill TV commercials at a moment's notice and send out a team of people taking down highway billboards?

Bizarre thread.

jinglish

OP has also opined that SEA and PDX's lack of winter weather infrastructure is reckless, despite the fact that there's not much to be reckless about since they just shut down during winter storms, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PDXpress

Hmm, if Hawaii were hit with ICBMs, we might have bigger things to worry about than Alaska's social media marketing.

soonerfanatic

Unless you like watching missiles get shot out of the sky. The hysteria is crazy. Rather than seek shelter, run outside and watch them get destroyed (unless they happen in exoatmosphere)

spamman808

I'm from Maui. I don't actually see how they are trying to profit from the near disaster, but everyone here is reacting differently to what happened earlier this week and some people are having an understandably more difficult time than others. That sad I don't see anything in the twitter ad that was disrespectful, so I don't see how it's offensive. No reference was made to a bomb or anything like that. That said, as tusphotog says, Oahu is a great place to visit. Especially at this time of year.

BSpeaker

One of my jobs way back in the dark ages in college was "traffic" for a TV station. My job was to sit and watch the news while I worked. If a plane crashed, I had to scour the ads for the upcoming news shows to insure there were no Airplane ads scheduled. Likewise for a hotel fire, meetings destination, etc. It was tedious and far more difficult to manage than you can imagine. I'm from Hawaii originally. I'm sure no one there took offense at that tweet (if they even saw it.) If it increases tourism when some people cancelled their vacations there, then good.

As for Hawaii, the beloved (and on the stodgy, too sensitive mainland, politically incorrect) comedian Frank DeLima even did a fun song about it. . The real truth of the matter is that Hawaii govt learned something they didn't know: that the way they set up the computer program to alert the public about a missile attack needed to be changed. The people of Hawaii learned to not be so dang complacent and to think about where to meet, what to do, and where to go. This program shows what the interface looked like. When you design a UI like that, you're just asking for trouble. The state can't agree on what the missile alert interface actual - Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL Thankfully it has been updated and my Ohana in Hawaii understands what I mean when i tell them they need to be less complacent about their safety.

So - TL;DR: Not such a bad thing that it happened even though people were scared out of their wits. Time to move on, be smarter, and let's get people traveling to Hawaii again. We suffered enough after 9/11, the SARS crisis and the first Gulf War.

apodo77

I love faux outrage and overly sensitive people. Keep up the good work!