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I agree with Skip, many incidents from scanners/pagers do not make the news media.
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Again, no edit capability yet, my bad I should have commented the first time I posted.
You're right, many many incidents on scanners/pagers don't see the light of day, that is because even though something is on a scanner/pager it is an unconfirmed report. In a case like this one, no news organization I have ever worked for would go with this story from East Coast or a scanner not confirmed by another source.
That source could be a dispatcher, PIO, reporter on the scene, witness, etc., but a scanner/pager is only a "tip" and is not used as confirmation of a story by reputable news organizations as fact.
If a reporter of mine used a pager/scanner as "fact" I'd fire him/her.
Be that as it may, there really are only a few reasons an early season boating accident on Winni wouldn't make the news. I have outlined two of them.