Emergency Broadcast Overhaul

US citizens are increasingly turning to the internet and cell phones instead of the TV for their main source for entertainment and information. The national emergency broadcast system should evolve to include the internet and cell phones as mediums for emergency communication. There are two easy plans that the emergency broadcast system could implement. First, internet service providers in the United States could implement a simple switch during an emergency that routes any webpage traffic to a specific information page. For example, during an emergency, when a person tries to go to www.google.com or www.whitehouse.gov , the person would instead see an emergency information page. Second, we could take a page out of China's book and send text messages containing emergency information to all cell phone users within the United States. Improving the way we reach out to our citizens in an emergency is an important step that should be considered.