Seven Villages, Janet Joakim

Throughout the news coverage of our water crisis of this past Veteran’s Day weekend, there has been a media obsession with what some term as a “reverse 911 system.”

I watched as channel 5’s Amalia Baretta delivered the news about the tests coming back clean, as a small part of a report about how residents in Hyannis were unhappy that the town “didn’t use it’s reverse 911 system.”

This name, reverse 911, is misleading. Continue reading reverse 911 system is not *really* 911 in reverse…