Re: Deadly Waste

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

on 7/12/02 1:56 PM, jjcohen at jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET wrote:



> John,

>   I think that the observation Ruth is trying to convey is --  Once  ideas

> such as "deadly radiation" and "no safe level" become embedded in the mind of

> those running the news media, it is almost impossible to dislodge them.

> Use of facts and logic seems futile when confronted by spin, hype, and

> ballyhoo. 



There you go again... Blaming the media for believing the spin-doctors,

hype-generators, and ballyhoo-artists. :-)  Bought and paid for by EPA, DOE,

NRC and the other Fed agency fear-mongers committed to the "profits" of the

LNT. 



Regards, Jim



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

>   From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM [mailto:RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

>   Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:06 AM

>   To: rorthen@EARTHSCIENCES.NET; jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET;

> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>   Subject: Re: Deadly Waste

> 

> 

>   The speculation about Yucca Mountain resulting in fewer casino customers in

> Las Vegas is reminiscent of the quote from reporter Fletcher Knebel (as quoted

> in David McCullough's biography of Harry Truman)  on the prediction that

> Truman would lose the 1948 election to Dewey,  Speaking of the crowds that

> greeted Truman's train during hie "whistlestop" campaign, Knebel wrote "Of

> course, we experts in the press car talked about the crowd, and we finally

> decided it didn't mean a damned thing.  Anybody will come out to see [the]

> President of the United States....But that doesn't mean they'd vote for Harry

> Truman.  He was going to lose.  We believed it because we wrote it every day."

> 

>   Ruth 

> 

>   Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>   ruthweiner@aol.com

> 



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