You're saying the media's hardly paying attention to the disaster, yet you post a CNN interview.
You're anti-government, and yet you're referencing an alarmist, U.S. gov't/corporate-sanctioned news outlet for your information.
:conf: :conf: :conf:
Buddy might be a theoretical physicist, but all I see is another talking head earning a fat paycheque for talking about what might happen.
Facts, not conjecture, s.v.please.
yankeeBaby
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Originally posted by hardcore trancer
It is scary how the media barely pays any attention to the nuclear disaster in Japan and things aren’t looking great at all at the moment.
What do you mean? I have seen it in the news and in the papers, still being discussed til this day? (Wall Street Journal, etc....) Maybe you are referring to Canadian media, I dunno, I am not here to assume based on your one statement.
hardcore trancer
I guess I should've been more clear on what I was trying to say.:p
All I’m trying to point out is that I don’t feel the major media is reporting the full scale of what is actually happening with regards to Japan’s nuclear disaster.
I get a feeling that this disaster is slowly being brushed off/forgotten just like BP’s disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. As for the CNN link I usually don’t bother with what they have to say but once in a while you can find a decent coverage here and there.
PivotTechno
Major media's mandate is to give everything that's going on in the world its 15 awe-inspiring seconds of due attention - if they stay on a particular topic for too long, people get bored and they lose their audience. This is why watching too much news (both mainstream and conspiracy, as they both essentially operate on the same principles) is bad for you - crisis after crisis, rarely with any perceptible resolution.
If you want current, relatively unbiased coverage of any particular world occurrence, reference wikipedia. The material is meticulously peer maintained and reviewed, full citations are required - otherwise lack of veracity is noted - and there's a refreshing lack of the hyperbole and fear-mongering that's present in most "news" reports.
Originally posted by PivotTechno
So let me get this straight...
You're saying the media's hardly paying attention to the disaster, yet you post a CNN interview.
You're anti-government, and yet you're referencing an alarmist, U.S. gov't/corporate-sanctioned news outlet for your information.
:conf: :conf: :conf:
He's awesome, isn't he??
yankeeBaby
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Originally posted by hardcore trancer
I guess I should've been more clear on what I was trying to say.:p
All I’m trying to point out is that I don’t feel the major media is reporting the full scale of what is actually happening with regards to Japan’s nuclear disaster.
I get a feeling that this disaster is slowly being brushed off/forgotten just like BP’s disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. As for the CNN link I usually don’t bother with what they have to say but once in a while you can find a decent coverage here and there.
Hmmmmm I sort of get what you are saying, but in my experience, it is still popping up almost daily in all of the major newspapers. But, just like Pivot said, the headlines change for attention-grabbing purposes. The disaster may now be focused on smaller daily updates, but its still an important topic of discussion.
I dunno, IMO, just because the article is on page 5 instead of page 1, doesnt mean that they have stopped talking about it. There is still plenty of info out there.
GGM
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Originally posted by PivotTechno
Major media's mandate is to give everything that's going on in the world its 15 awe-inspiring seconds of due attention - if they stay on a particular topic for too long, people get bored and they lose their audience. This is why watching too much news (both mainstream and conspiracy, as they both essentially operate on the same principles) is bad for you - crisis after crisis, rarely with any perceptible resolution.
Well said...
A lot of people completely forget about that very simple fact.
Audience interest = viewer #s = ad $$$ = the purpose of mainstream news.
hardcore trancer
We may have more nuclear disaster coming our way.
PivotTechno
Or we may not! Ever think of that possibility, or is your mind always geared to worst case scenario?
Must be kind of painful, living that fearfully all the time.
P.S.: alarmist newscast is alarmist.
E2EK1EL
Area near Fukushima nuclear plant sealed after lethal levels of radiation detected
August 2, 2011 00:08:00
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO—The operator of Japan’s damaged nuclear power plant says an area where potentially lethal levels of radiation were detected has been sealed.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday radiation exceeded 10 sieverts at two locations near a duct connected to a ventilation stack between two reactor units at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.
TEPCO says no one has been injured. The area required no immediate work and was closed off.
It also said radiation levels around the complex were not rising. That’s a sign the duct wasn’t leaking.
TEPCO said melted fuel in the No. 1 reactor might have collected inside the duct after leaking from the containment vessel during venting early in the crisis.
The plant was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami March 11.
FunkyCrew
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Originally posted by yankeeBaby
What do you mean? I have seen it in the news and in the papers, still being discussed til this day? (Wall Street Journal, etc....) Maybe you are referring to Canadian media, I dunno, I am not here to assume based on your one statement.
he's sort of right - I personally did not catch ANYTHING in the recent papers or news on TV. I mean with Amy Winehouse dying we have bigger news in the country :p
jester
"Fukushima caesium leaks 'equal 168 Hiroshimas'"
(Courtesy of The Telegraph UK)
