Quake Rocks Japan

[rjs246]

I absolutely love the nytimes, but let's not pretend that they don't have an agenda.

[Diomedes]

read the articles icehole

it's good reporting.

[Diomedes]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/latest-nuclear-plant-explosion-in-japan-raises-radiation-fears/2011/03/15/ABwTmha_story.html?hpid=z1

Another frightening article.

Or does the Post have an agenda too?

Does everyone have an agenda?  Nothing can be trusted, it's all farging bullshtein?

[QB Eagles]

The best reporting on this so far that I've been exposed to has been NPR. During the first 15 minutes of Talk of the Nation, their science correspondent Jon Hamilton told the story in by far the most accurate and informative fashion that I've heard. Not much in the way of speculation, just the facts and what they mean.

The Beeb and Reuters have been doing OK as well. Most of the media reporting has been awful... not just wrong or sensationalistic, but also confusing and contradictory. Unsurprisingly, cable news has been the sewer, but newspapers in general have done a poor job as well.

[Diomedes]

Yeah, I listen to a lot of NPR as well.

in fact, I read this bit tonight before the others I've posted:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/03/15/134576215/at-their-own-risk-what-will-happen-to-the-fargushima-workers

[QB Eagles]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/latest-nuclear-plant-explosion-in-japan-raises-radiation-fears/2011/03/15/ABwTmha_story.html?hpid=z1

Another frightening article.

Or does the Post have an agenda too?

Does everyone have an agenda?  Nothing can be trusted, it's all farging bullshtein?

The thing I don't understand about that story is that it says the radiation danger is coming from unit #2, but they quote no numbers (one sure sign of a zesty story). All the numbers I've seen show much more radiation coming from #3 and #4.

[Diomedes]

Agenda!

[Diomedes]

Oh and I just checked CNN.com, the best news site ever, and they are saying all workers have been evacuated.

I guess their work is done and it's all good.

[rjs246]

NPR is the shtein and is where I get most of my news. Also Dio is getting all fired up about nothing no one is saying that the situation is all settled and all is well. But people have a misguided and delusional sense of risk. If a massive event like this results in little or no issue that is huge.

You farging drama queen.

[rjs246]

Btw I'll read the nytimes articles tomorrow when I should be working. Why would I read them tonight while I'm drinking?

[QB Eagles]

The workers left during a radiation spike and have already returned according to MSNBC (which I'm trying to confirm elsewhere since theyve been awful). Though it remains to be seen whether health-affecting levels of radiation have reached the Japanese public, I do think that those within the plant have been putting themselves at risk. They are heroes.

Every form of energy generation carries risk. A burst dam during the earthquake killed about a dozen people after washing away their homes, and yet this reactor crisis, so far linked to zero deaths, means that nuclear power is unacceptable. Cost/benefit is a sober analysis, not an emotional decision made during moments of panic.

[Diomedes]

another dose of propaganda from the super liberal anti-american NYTimes:

the plant design employed here is a sort of cheaper, less safe nuclear plant design

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16contain.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=nuclear%20plant%20design&st=cse

[rjs246]

Dio's got a real thorn in his ass about this.

[smeags]

i can not believe that a news source would ever print or post something that isn't 100% factual and/or have any type of agenda behind it.

never happens. doesnt when it comes to politics and certainly not here. 

[rjs246]

I absolutely love the nytimes, but let's not pretend that they don't have an agenda.

In the excruciatingly sober light of day I'd like to retract this statement. The NYT is unabashedly liberal, but I don't actually believe that they have an explicit agenda to promote stereotypically liberal points of view.

Also those two articles were not exactly pro or anti nuke. They just talked about the situation and the workers who have stayed behind. As everyone else has agreed, those who stayed behind should be revered. There is no way for them to know how their health will be impacted and they are doing a necessary job voluntarily. I'm still comfortable saying that this could be a huge win for nuclear power. So there.