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   From: Will Honea    
      
   Shmuel Metz wrote:   
      
   > In , on 03/30/2011   
   >    at 12:12 PM, Will Honea  said:   
   >    
   >>Ivan has the right idea - the press seems fascinated by the "10,000   
   >>times  normal" symbology when the actual numbers show most of the   
   >>measurements are  similar to what I refer to as measuring mouse-farts   
   >>in a hurricane - 10,000  farts are still trivial compared to 130 knot   
   >>winds.   
   >    
   > What bothers me about the media coverage is that the secondary issue   
   > of the reactors seems to have displaced reporting on the tsunami   
   > itself, whose casualty figures were horrifying.   
      
   Good point - from what I read there were few, if any, deaths attributed to    
   the primary earthquake while the total number due to the tsunami appears    
   likely to exceed 20,000.  The sole death at the reactor site to date was    
   caused by a fall from a crane during the quake while the hospitalizations    
   due directly to subsequent events at the reactors have been precautionary    
   and brief.   
      
   Unfortunately, the media reports are driven by the entertainment (ghoulish    
   attribution, but true) value and the word "nuclear" is seen as an attention    
   getter.  I don't know of any discipline which has exceeded "journalism" in    
   its' prostituion of their supposed professional purpose.   
      
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   Will Honea   
      
      
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