[ RadSafe ] CNN Gives Asaf Durakovic Star Billing How ro contest tilted reporting?

[parthasarathy k s]

Dear Professor Cohen,

Myths and the reality! How can one counter tilted reporting and bias of TV channels and media? Impotent rage does not help either! The recent response of a Commissioner of NRC to Mr Zimmerman's article in the New York Times on Polonium poisoning is published as an "opinion" of a few lines length! The Commissioner's cogent response clearly rebutts some of the core premises of Mr Zimmerman.

We must flood all media with the type of information you have; not many may remember or may even know that we are ingesting that many uranium atoms daily! As a matter of fact, I had recommended your book titled "Before It's too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Energy"  as soon as I read it. It is really a source book. Some well thumbed copies are available with us now.

A few years ago, a free lancer from India wrote an article in the ChristianScience Monitor totally distorting some statements made by the then Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. The stringer took an appointment with us before writing the piece. He called it off at the last minute as he was busy else where. We offered another chance. He did not turn up. Still he wrote the article with many inaccurate statements. 

I contested his views word by word. CSM ignored it. I sent a reminder without success. I got the piece published in the dispatches of  the Press Trust of India, India's premier news agency. Even though they gave enough space to vent my ire, they also did not include my statements which would have undermined the competence and credibility of the CSM stringer!

The wag is now attached to an Indian TV news channel and is involved in sting operations!

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----- Original Message ----
From: Bernard L. Cohen <blc+ at pitt.edu>
To: Roger Helbig <rhelbig at california.com>
Cc: radsafelist <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, 7 February, 2007 10:00:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] CNN Gives Asaf Durakovic Star Billing

    Note that the average person ingests a million trillion (1 E18) 
atoms of uranium every day

Roger Helbig wrote:

>http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=1935309271
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>In this video, he claims that even one atom of Depleted Uranium remains a threat to the soldier for life // one atom. 
>Durakovic is clearly not what CNN believes him to be, but he has been introduced to them by Herbert Reed and Gerard Matthew, two of the seven soldiers who sense that there is gold in uranium, or who have been pushed to that point by misinformation from the NoMoreDU group in New York and Durakovic with Gerdes.  If you want to comment on this video, please, do so and let CNN know that they need to dig a lot deeper about the people that they let star in this little caper.  
>
>Roger Helbig
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