Re: Dateline NBC TMI special

["Eric S. Pittman" <e-pittman@northwestern.edu>]

Maury,


My letter went out this morning to:


NBC Viewer Relations

30 Rockefeller Place

New York, NY 10112


and a copy went to 


dateline@nbc.com.


If anyone has a more appropriate address, please

let me know.


Eric




At 12:57 PM 8/15/2001 -0500, maury wrote:

> Well, it's letter time again and my email
>
> server is back on line. Does anyone
>
> have handy an appropriate address for Dateline/NBC? This thing needs to
>
> at
>
> least be answered. Thanks,
>
> Maury Siskel      maury@webtexas.com
>
>
> jbell wrote:
>
>
> > Kind of curious if anybody saw the scathing report on the Three
>
> Mile
>
> > Island incident aired last night by Dateline on NBC. I tuned in a
>
> little
>
> > late but what I got out of it, the main person being interviewed by
>
> the
>
> > commentator, their "expert" if you will, was none other
>
> than the man who
>
> > wrote the screen play for the movie "The China Syndrome".
>
> The gist of
>
> > the show was that TMI was basically 30 minutes from meltdown at
>
> one
>
> > point and could have even exploded spewing "deadly radioactive
>
> debris"
>
> > over a 10 mile radius around the plant. It was even mentioned at
>
> one
>
> > point by one of the so called experts that there probably wouldn't
>
> be
>
> > anybody killed beyond the 10 mile radius. The show made the folks at
>
> Met
>
> > Edison look like criminals, the NRC look inept, the media champions
>
> of
>
> > justice, (as usual), and the State government officials poor
>
> uniformed
>
> > "mushrooms". This show made Chernoybl look like a day at
>
> the park
>
> > compared to TMI!
>
> >
>
> > I find the timing of this show interesting. Now that President Bush
>
> has
>
> > at least acknowledged that nuclear power should play a part in
>
> our
>
> > overall energy program, a 1 hour special is broadcast basically
>
> trying
>
> > to scare the American people back into submission regarding
>
> nuclear
>
> > energy. Without a doubt the anti-nucs have the ear of  the
>
> media and
>
> > have once again got their message across. I would venture to say
>
> that
>
> > the 59% in favor of building new nuclear power plants that a recent
>
> poll
>
> > showed, has probably once again dropped below that all important
>
> 50%
>
> > mark. It's just a shame that one-sided programs like this are
>
> allowed to
>
> > air on national TV and we in the nuclear industry have to "grin
>
> and bear
>
> > it".
>
> >
>
> > Comments?
>
> >
>
> > Jim Bell
>
> > Adco Services, Inc.
>
>
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