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RE: 60 minutes - Yucca Mountain
Never said he was. Think about the reports of the
sinking of the USS MAINE was reported and the
consequences. News is not history.
--- "George J. Vargo" <vargo@physicist.net> wrote:
> And Don Hewitt is NO Ben Bradlee!
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf
> Of John Jacobus
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:56 PM
> To: George J. Vargo; 'Stabin, Michael';
> RuthWeiner@AOL.COM; 'RADSAFE'
> Subject: RE: 60 minutes - Yucca Mountain
>
>
> For what it is worth, I do not try to get all of my
> knowledge of events from one source. I also not
> expect the first reporting to be the most accurate,
> whether it is a breaking story or a researched piece
> as on "60 Minutes." There is always something that
> is
> added, or discovered, or reinterpreted. As Ben
> Bradlee said, "News is the rough draft of history."
>
> "60 Minutes" certainly has its place. It gets
> people
> to think and respond. It certainly has influenced
> the
> people on this list.
>
> --- "George J. Vargo" <vargo@physicist.net> wrote:
> > Mike is absolutely correct. 60 Minutes is
> > entertainment and NOT news. That
> > said, I think that they have contributed
> > significantly to public discourse
> > in this country, sometimes for good, sometimes
> not.
> > The 60 Minutes
> > producers know what buttons to push to get public
> > reaction and do their job
> > very well. Some of their stories on topics such
> as
> > flawed or faulty
> > consumer products may have even saved some lives
> by
> > getting unsafe products
> > out of the marketplace. Other stories are,
> > admittedly, just gonzo
> > journalism.
> >
> > Yes, I remember the moral outrage that I felt when
> > they attacked nuclear
> > power in the 1980s. Oh the inaccuracies!
> >
> > I try to put some emotional distance between the
> > stories -- and remember
> > that -- they're just stories -- someone's
> personal
> > synthesis of observation
> > processed through their own beliefs and biases.
> >
> > Personally, I've found some of the recent stories
> > about lapses and
> > vulnerabilities in homeland security, civil rights
> > violations against
> > naturalized citizens from unpopular countries, and
> > other alleged excesses of
> > government, to be timely, thought-provoking and
> > certainly worthy of public
> > attention. I still reserve the right to exercise
> my
> > remote!
> >
> > George J. Vargo, Ph.D., CHP
> > Senior Scientist
> > MJW Corporation
> > http://www.mjwcorp.com
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> > [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On
> Behalf Of Stabin,
> > Michael
> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:57 AM
> > To: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM; RADSAFE
> > Subject: RE: 60 minutes - Yucca Mountain
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
> > >
> > > It's impossible to know what was edited out....
> > > Because I am very familiar with the project, I
> > recognize the
> > > bias and distortion in the program. It makes me
> > wonder about
> > > the 60 minutes and similar programs for which I
> am
> > not so
> > > familiar with the subject matter. Are they
> really
> > biased
> > > also? I think they probably are.
> >
> > For the most part, yes. I stopped watching 60
> > Minutes in the early 1980's
> > when they did a piece on safety issues and cost
> > overruns at an Illinois (I
> > think) nuclear plant. Officials from the plant
> > videotaped along with the 60
> > Minutes crew, and they later circulated a tape
> > showing the gross distortions
> > that were due to film left on the cutting room
> > floor. I realized then that I
> > could not trust anything on that show that I
> DIDN'T
> > know about intimately,
> > since something I did know something about was so
> > badly distorted, for
> > political or entertainment purposes (or both). I
> > watched a journalists'
> > roundtable some years later in which a journalism
> > scholar pointed out that
> > these shows are indeed strictly entertainment, and
> > should not be considered
> > news in any form. Mike Wallace was surprised and
> > upset by the opinion of a
> > man he obviously respected, but could not refute
> his
> > point.
> >
> > 60 Minutes also did a terrible hatchet job on
> > someone I knew personally, a
> > nuclear medicine physician from Oak Ridge of very
> > high moral character and
> > professional excellence, during the
> Clinton/O'Leary investigations
> > into human uses of radiation in the 1940's and
> 1950's.
> > The piece was
> > reprehensible, and I heard several reports from
> ORAU
> > employees of the
> > rudeness of the 60 Minutes staff, particularly
> > Leslie Stahl. It was amusing,
> > however, when they asked employees to duct tape
> > plastic over the air vents
> > leading into one of the rooms near the old whole
> > body irradiator at ORAU, in
> > case any "old radiation" was still drifting around
> > in there.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
> > Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological
> > Sciences
> > Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
> > Vanderbilt University
> > 1161 21st Avenue South
> > Nashville, TN 37232-2675
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> >
> >
> >
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