Japan, Nuclear Fallout and Absurd Hysteria: Fox News

As I have repeatedly shown, this blog is more than willing to criticize Fox News as part of the media problem (no intrest in actual information), rather than part of the solution.

This is another one of those small things, but a symptom of a major problem. Fox presented a weather report on winds around Japan and nuclear fallout (in the Sheppard Smith program). This is actually fairly important as to any nuclear radiation (particles) leaking into the atmosphere in Japan. But the weather reporter proceeded to talk about the upper level winds that might take fallout to Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States. This is FALSE PROPAGANDA, pure and simple.

Even in a total meltdown, the United States is simply too far from Japan to be signficantly affected by the nuclear fallout from a meltdown in a nuclear reactor in Japan. Can't hapen in a way to create any significant danger.

Doubt me? Remember, it is IMPOSSIBLE for a nuclear reactor to explode like an atomic bomb. All that can happen is what amounts to a cnventional explosion throwing radiaton from a melting core into the atmosphere. That would be a big roblem for Japan (allthough not the end of life as we know it--you may remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima). It would not be a problem for the United States. Too far away. Remember, in the 1950s we tested HYDROGEN BOMBS in the Pacific. Yes, that was not a good thing. But it hardly caused any major problems in the United States.

Nope. This is a case of Fox News simply trhowing out fear mongering to try to build an audience. There is no excuse for it, and Fox engaged in the same kind of fear mongering in more important reports. INFORMATION is what the "news" should be about, and not fear mongering SPECULATION. Sure, the nuclear plant situation in Japan is a problem, especailly for Japan, but it is absurd to suggest that the "job" of the media is to HYPE the problem. The news should be about facts and information, and not about FEAR (and ratings).

P.S. Should I blame my poor eyesight on those hydrogen bomb, open air tests in the Pacific, when I was a vulnerable chld? I never even thoiught of that until now. I could yet join this "victim" psychology.