[malandrew]

> because they condition people not to take an alarm seriously.

That'd be a stronger argument if the EAS and its predecessor the EBS were not broadcast with sufficient regularity that people approach such messages with some degree of skepticism already.

I was looking over the Wikipedia article for the EAS and I found one illegal broadcast interesting:

> In February 2011, the morning show of WIZM-FM in La Crosse, Wisconsin played a recording of the aforementioned "dead bodies" EAS hack. It inadvertently triggered the EAS on WKBT-DT, relaying both the message, as well as the hosts' laughter

Not even being able to discuss and listen to related primary material of a recent newsworthy event definitely gets into first amendment violation territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System#Tone_us...