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RE: (Mostly off-topic) The media and PTSD
Barbara Hamrick wrote:
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Furthermore, as you point out, Mr.
Lavely, in the TMI case, the NRC wasn't sure what to do, nor the State of PA,
and the media exacerbated this situation with alarming news reports.
Perhaps the media should be sued for the intentional infliction of
emotional distress...I wouldn't mind pursuing that legal theory
either.
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That's just my opinion, of course.
Barbara L. Hamrick
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I remember that one of the networks put Ernest Sternglass on their
national news program the day of the accident. Sternglass said -- I
paraphrase -- **You're all going to die. Run for
the hills**. I note, in passing,
that the only fatality associated with TMI was the 6 or 7 year old boy who fell
from the deck of a yacht in Baltimore harbor and drowned. His parents had
evacuated from the Harrisburg area to a friend's
yacht.
NBC ran on its nightly news an explanatory graphic that had the
outline of a containment dome; inside was a shallow pan of water with a flame
under it. That's the day I quit watching network news. PBS coverage
had a few problems, but was far and away the best of all the news
organizations.
Best regards.
Jim Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
Richland, WA
These comments are mine and have not been reviewed
and/or approved by my management or by the U.S. Department of
Energy.