Re: what news is relevant

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@HOME.COM>]

Franz,

I'm confused (no jokes now). I looked at Sandy's last 3 postings. News was from

AP,  Reuters, Kyodo, and Australian Broadcasting. Are you saying that ONLY

national news organizations like that provide unbiased objective news?



Also, many times, the newspaper articles I post are from the wire services or

are based on them. I don't see

what the difference is, as to whether an article is from Time, UCS, or AP. As

long as the subject is under the radsafe umbrella, it should be OK to post.



I was also confused about your comment about journalists making money. Isn't the

AP a money-making organization?



I do understand your point that individual journalists can be biased. So can the

AP, and as you demonstrate, the venerable NY Times. But thats where the

discussion comes in, where you and others who care to can knock holes in these

reports.



Finally, as Sandy pointed out in his response, whether you think so or not, by

posting these news articles I'm doing you alla favor by letting you know how the

news is slanted/spun/pitched/biased, and how ordinary local people think about

nuke power.



peace

norm



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> Sandy,

>

> I respectfully disagree with many points you made. I have carefully reread

> some of your recent postings. I am not sure, that your compilations

> distributed on the "nuclear news list" are posted to the RADSAFE list, but

> if they would not, I wonder what kind of "reviews of daily newspaper

> articles" you post to RADSAFE according to Norman Cohen. Or am I excluded

> from these reviews on RADSAFE by some filter? Your postings to the "nuclear

> news list" do not cite newspaper articles, they are solely citations of news

> distributed by press agencies. They give facts, not opinions of journalists

> who have to make their money by commenting and distorting news or have to

> accomodate the political line of the paper. You distribute facts and you

> have distributed enough messages about accidents, financial crises etc.

> Norman distributes opinions of those journalists who write what he likes to

> hear - a great example is his last NY Times posting, where all the elements

> of distribution of false or semi-true news and opinions are included.

> Obscure groups are cited and they are given a facade of "science" on top of

> their deep ignorance of what they are distributing and talking about. Even

> the choice of the names of such groups is deliberately misleading - "nuclear

> safety group", "Bridge the Gap", "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists",

> pretending a high scientific level and independence of leading scientists -

> though they are scientific nuts and clearly directed towards achieving the

> goals of anti-nuclear agitation with whatever means.

>

> What Norman addressed when bringing your postings in is something totally

> different from what you really do. Do you really like the idea that your

> contributions to this professional list are considered equal to the endless

> forwarding of silly antinuclear propaganda, hidden in newspaper articles,

> based on the worst pseudo-science I know of?

>

> I know antinuclear people, who have reasonable reservations about nuclear

> power, who do not ride the "deadly-danger-horse" and do not tell everybody

> that they will die very soon, if the NPPs will not be shut off. They do not

> use the nuclear apocalypsis to frighten citizens and to get them to support

> their political intentions and - very important for the militant

> anti-nuclear "scientists" - to receive money for so called "research". I

> know a few anti-nuclear web-sites, which provide excellent and correct

> information about nuclear and radiation protection issues. It is sometimes a

> pleasure to discuss with such people, because they understand usually a lot

> of the interaction of economics, environment, safety and health and they do

> not claim that they have the answer ready for all problems in this world.

>

> Best regards,

>

> Franz



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