According to psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow, this is equivalent to news that a quarter of our young people were abusing cocaine or injecting heroin more than once a week.
If the missiles, which are often called "Stinger equivalents" in news reports, really were in Libya, it would make an already bleak situation with unsecured conventional arms there substantially worse.
Times Square is, essentially, a chain restaurant containing multiple chain restaurants, surrounded by digital screens running advertisements for the chain restaurant equivalents of news, products, and services.
One orchestra trustee called the announcement the equivalent of: "Good news, you've just been mugged".
There is the British Council, a less sprightly equivalent, and various news media outlets.
He said those who ignore the network make a mistake by passing up a loud and influential megaphone, one that has no equivalent in cable news.
It's ladled out liberally by distributors and recyclists who are not environmentally sound but are the news equivalent of strip miners.
The stakes are also much higher for the likes of Mr. Schieffer and Mr. Brokaw, since I am the TV news equivalent of a Miami Heat bench warmer to their LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.
For American television, with its relentless focus on a single issue, covering anthrax and the Middle East at the same time is the news equivalent of walking and chewing gum.
The cable networks went to the news equivalent of Defcon 1, providing around-the-clock updates, satellite interviews and live broadcasts of routine speeches by Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore from places like Saginaw, Mich., and Ames, Iowa.
