Fukushima media coverage ‘may be harmful’ – health – 30 August 2011 – New Scientist
One report, in UK newspaper The Independent, quoted a scientist who predicted more than a million would die, and that the prolonged release of radioactivity from Fukushima would make health effects worse than those from the sudden release experienced at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine. “We’ve got to stop these sorts of reports coming [...]
WORLDbytes – After Fukushima: The Fear Factor | Atomic Insights
Why is anyone who suggests that the radiation news may not be all bad, immediately labeled an apologist for the nuke industry? Hint: it has something to do with Marxism. See below the video for my answer. In the video, Ms. Fox tells how many of the journalists that she regularly serves from the Science [...]
Evacuation turns into chance to help victims | The Japan Times Online
More on the “fly-jin”. I don’t think this is a clear-cut, black-or-white matter, that those who “flew” were irrational cowards while those who stayed were hard-headed realists loyal to Japan, their families and their jobs. Comments below the quotes. With so much information available and even governments disagreeing on the best course of action, many [...]
Japan nuclear crisis: South Korea schools closed over Fukushima radiation fears | Mail Online
It is to try and prevent things like this happening, that the Japanese government yesterday asked foreign media to report objectively on the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday, as sensationalist or factually incorrect reports are believed to have fanned fears and led to import restrictions on Japanese [...]
Be objective, not sensationalist, foreign media told | The Japan Times Online
It’s official: foreign media sensationalized the Fukushima crisis and were even factually wrong. Shock! Horror! Shorely not!! Interestingly, or perversely, some foreigners in Japan seemed to believe the sensationalist press rather than the restrained Japanese one, precisely because the restrained reports gave the impression of witholding information, leading to mistrust. Tokyo has been asking foreign media [...]
BraveNewClimate
BNC, one of my regular stops for solid news and perspective on the Fukushima nuclear crisis (tho most posters and commenters are pro-nuclear power, so that should be borne in mind), hosts a Guest Post by Dr. William Sacks. His article contains some sobering reminders of how we can be misled by the very media which is [...]
Josef Oehmen and Fukushima – Would I have believed myself? « BraveNewClimate
Josef Oehmen, whose post “Why I am Not Concerned about Japan’s Nuclear Reactors” was posted March 13th and which quickly went viral, is revisiting his original piece, which is again being hosted by Brave New Climate. The comments are particularly interesting. Dr. Oehmen’s follow-up piece, the title suggests, is about the media and how readers [...]
U.S. no-go zone ‘overreaction’ | The Japan Times Online
It is information from the scientific community that, on the whole, has been of the greatest usefulness in this crisis. Specifically, Dr Josef Oehmen’s letter to a friend in Japan, Why I am not concerned about Japan’s nuclear reactors, written a couple of days after the tsunami hit. The Brave New Climate blog World Nuclear [...]
iPad cads scalping buyers – NYPOST.com, or why I don’t read newspapers (3)
Here we go again. A cutthroat Asian group has set its crosshairs on the flagship Apple store on Fifth Avenue at 59th — scoring nearly every iPad 2 it can get its hands since the hot gizmo went on sale last week, to re-peddle at exorbitant prices here and in China. The illicit, highly orchestrated [...]
Foreign media take flak for fanning fears
It’s official. No doubt from now we will see the edifying spectacle of the media industry eating itself: making news out of its own incompetence. My relatives abroad have been most concerned about my safety: I sent them 3 articles. None of them were from a mainstream source. Some foreign media coverage of the crisis [...]
