Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 15

"On the failure to warn the public" From April 30, 2020.  The RCMP in Nova Scotia chose to use Twitter to warn residents in an isolated rural area to stay inside and lock their doors when they were called to the scene of murders and arson on a Saturday night in April.  It was another eight hours or so before they felt a second tweet was warranted; after a witness came forward and told them the man they were looking for was dressed as a cop, and driving a replica cruiser.  What unfolded overnight and through Sunday morning became the worst mass murder in Canadian history.  It didn't take long for radio and tv stations to wonder why the RCMP had not issued an "emergency alert" to warn the public. But someone should also be asking...how did radio and tv miss the story for so many hours? They could have had the story on the air late Saturday night.  But they missed it.