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Monday, July 16, 2007

Is it just me or is the panic de’jour getting out of hand

So, the top headline of my RSS feeds reads:

“Japan quake causes nuke plant leak, fire”

Which to me sounds pretty ominous. After all, wouldn’t a leak and a fire at a nuclear power plant be a really bad thing? Well, apparently that is what the media wanted us to feel, because the truth was much less ominous than the headlines…

Apparently the leak released one-billionth the legal limit of radioactive material and the fire was actually a transformer that started on fire - not part of the reactor assembly.

I know we all know that the media bias is out of control and that they thrive on panic… But at times like this it seems that they take it way too far.

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Rob
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Well, “earthquake causes harmless leak at nuke plant” isn’t going to sell many newspapers now, is it?


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Rob on July 16, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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Isn’t it interesting how the media demonizes corporations and industries who they perceive to be unethical and greedy while excluding their own unethical pursuit of headlines in an effort to gain a measurable audience which then translates into advertising dollars?  “Big Media” is the real corporate snake in the grass.

HG on July 16, 2007 at 07:23 pm

HG.  I couldn’t agree with you more.  Even after Russia admitted the genocide in Ukraine and the collusion and cover-up by Walter Duranty, the new york times still has kept their “hero” on their walls!  Shameful!


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Chief RZ on July 16, 2007 at 07:39 pm

The Panic Squads have long been out of hand. And people are turning away from them, just look at their downward plunging readership/viewership numbers.


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2Hotel9 on July 17, 2007 at 05:36 am
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