The initial news about Japan was and is great but I am currently getting a lot better coverage from amateurs and bloggers regarding the continued issues related to the earth quake and the tsunami. I was listening to the talking heads on CNN, Fox, MSNBC as turned them off as the whip the wind with their constant scare tactic regarding the Nuclear problems with the reactors. Whole cities were destroyed. Less than 30 people have been killed in the reactor problems. Yet you would think from the coverage that the whole west cost of the US will be destroyed if the melt down does happen.
To lecture the Japanese on the problems with associated with a nuclear detonation is to lecture to the whale about the risks of whale hunters. Why would the media attempt to make a connection between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear reactor. There is no correlation other than one is a controlled nuclear reaction and the other is not. The explosions are not nuclear by hydogen and they do put out some radiation. The problem is the medial leaves you with the sense that the radiation put out by reactors is the same as that put out by bombs. Not so and they know it. They just say this to make people listen because it scares them. Not even good Carney. It is the worse bagte and switch one can do to people who trust you. That is to lie about something as important as this.
The experience of melt down facts are very sobering.
Chernoby: 4000 deaths, 35 at the reactor itself.
United Nations study : 5 September 2005 | Geneva - A total of up to 4000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 years ago.
Chernoby: 4000 deaths, 35 at the reactor itself.
United Nations study : 5 September 2005 | Geneva - A total of up to 4000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 years ago.
Three Mile Island: O deaths
In the aftermath of the accident, investigations focused on the amount of radiation released by the accident. According to the American Nuclear Society, using the official radiation emission figures, "The average radiation dose to people living within ten miles of the plant was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by US residents in a year.”
Based on these low emission figures, early scientific publications on the health effects of the fallout estimated one or two additional cancer deaths in the 10 mi (16 km) area around TMI. Disease rates in areas further than 10 miles from the plant were never examined.
The 24-hour news cycle has really put a need to fill time with nonsense that is passed off as news. The babble that is sent out of the airwaves should not be listened to but the talking heads and their producers and directors have learned that you need to use psychology so you do not turn the channel. Tickle them, get them emotional, show them something that no body else will show you, and continue to raise the bar so that we now see 100's of deaths, dead body and even have great TV that is nothing but cut up bodies. This type of scare even happens in Minnesota with the changing of the weather to talk about wind chill. Apparently they do not realize that we all go outside and have some idea how to deal with the cold. But for the old people that have heard regular Fahrenheit temps for 80 years now here that the temp is -40 when the temp is only -2. That is scary for them. But it sure gets them to listen to the weather.I wish the media would just give us the news and then switch to some replay of Top Gun or something.
No comments:
Post a Comment