RE: Media and radioactivity

["Dov Brickner" <brickner@IN.ZAHAV.NET.IL>]

I agree and I suppose most Radsafers do also.

Last year I had a conversatuion with a French journalist assigned to cover

IRPA 10. I asked her wether she had  formal education in physics or biology.

She replied that she had none but she added "I know how to write, so that

people will read"...

Seems that if scientists are requiered to deal with journalists , they need

the qulification of an excellent schoolteacher AND a salesman

 Dov (Dubi) Brickner  M.D.

Beer Sheva , ISRAEL



> -----Original Message-----

> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Susan Gawarecki

> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:36 PM

> To: RADSAFE

> Subject: Media and radioactivity

>

>

> Norm and other activists,

>

> I joined the RadSafe list because it has long been clear to me that the

> media is not good at accurately covering technical issues.  I'd dealt

> with them on previous occasions in my geology and hazardous waste

> careers.  Reporters rarely have any background in science or the

> technology they are trying to cover and are prone to take quotes out of

> context and edit explanations so that key disclaimers are lost.

>

> If you cite the media in order to justify your position, you are falling

> into the trap of believing material of questionable accuracy.  What is

> perhaps more galling to those of us in the technology fields is that

> "self-taught" activists then deliberately feed mis-information to the

> media to further their own agendas.

>

> I read RadSafe because I'm interested in learning the facts about

> nuclear science and radiation safety.  I make better decisions when I've

> got a grasp of what the science says, instead of the media presentation,

> which ultimately is designed to hold a viewer's or reader's interest and

> keep them coming back for more.  Scare tactics work well in that

> respect, don't they?

>

> Regards,

> Susan

> --

> .....................................................

> Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director

> Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee

> Please visit our Web site - http://www.local-oversight.org

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