Re: CSI Miami: Aiding terrorism

["Vincent King" <slavak@gj.net>]

Don't even get me started about the mileage (and the $$$) that television

and Hollywood and novelists derive from terrorist activities.  (Oh, but ask

them directly, and suddenly it's "fiction" and "just entertainment."

Hmmm....sounds reminiscent of Radsafe...)



By the way, after quietly watching unending Radsafe messages go by on

eminently mundane (but radiologically related) topics, I note an immediate

request for those interested in one of our most direct interfaces with the

public (namely, television and Hollywood) to 'get a grip' and take their

discussion off of Radsafe.  Whence the vehemence here, folks?



(A question for the "television is fiction" crowd: how long would shows like

"ER" or "The Sopranos" last if they didn't pursue factual reality to support

their ficticious storylines?)



Vincent King,

Not having a cow in Grand Junction, CO





----- Original Message -----

From: "John White" <radjcw@HOTMAIL.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:15 PM

Subject: CSI Miami: Aiding terrorism





> I guess my disappointment is a little stronger than most of the opinions I

> have seen here so far. I feel the engenderment of needless fear in the

> perceptions of the American public aids and abets those who would cause

fear

> for religious or political purposes. In these times I expect a custodian

of

> American opinion, which in my opinion the major media networds are, to

> exercise at least technical responsibility and not the flagrant

> irresponsibility I saw on the show. I think the show presented such a

> distorted effect of radioactive materials that the lay citizen now has

> further fear of things radioactive.  I have been laboring to educate the

> emergency response community as well as the citizenry I contact on the

> realities of radiation. I think the show did much damage to the efforts of

> reasonable professionals who read this list, and I think we as a

> professional society should call CBS to task.

>

> John White

>

>

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