AW: [ RadSafe ] Editorial: " My nuclear nightmare ", Journalists' cost-effectiveness

[Franz Schönhofer]

John and RADSAFErs,

Yes, John, you consult books, you consult experts you know, you combine
your informations to form an overall picture of what the discussion is
about. 

Journalists have to be cost-effective. They do not have time to read
books which they anyway will not understand because of lack of
background education and they do not even search for those experts which
they would have to look after if they wanted a balanced opinion. This is
more than true for nuclear issues. They accept the bla-bla of those
groups which provide them with simple opinions, which they only have to
copy into their articles, without any further research. Costs are almost
zero, the effect is great - people want to be scared, they need an
additional adrenaline output. Politics do their utmost to scare people
in order to get through otherwise unpopular legislation, so the output
of those journalists is obviously welcome. 

That news might be entertainment is increasingly of concern. Average
people seem not to be able to discern between fact and fiction any more.
In Europe we are at the moment aware, that those TV programmes are
called "infotainment". 

Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
AUSTRIA
phone -43-0699-1168-1319


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> Auftrag von John Jacobus
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2005 14:39
> An: Jaro; RADSAFE
> Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] Editorial: " My nuclear nightmare "
> 
> We are ignorant on certain subjects.  That is why we
> have books, experts to consult, etc.  The question is
> do writers, including some on this list server, avail
> themselves of the right sources.
> 
> It is also important to remember that some "news" is
> really "entertainment."  Look at some of the shows on
> television.
> 
> --- Jaro <jaro-10kbq at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> > How unfortunate that journalists feel they *must*
> > flaunt their ignorance....
> >
> >  Jaro Franta, P.Eng.
> > Tel.: (514) 875-3444
> > Montréal, Québec
> > frantaj at aecl.ca
> > web master, CNS Québec branch:
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> > c9dfae5a-c563-4590-ad98-101ae33b10fc
> > Editorial
> > My nuclear nightmare
> > The provincial government should use the threat of
> > terrorist attack on
> > nuclear plants as a reason to close Gentilly-2
> > HENRY AUBIN
> > The Gazette, February 22, 2005
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> >  Accidents and terrorism are the two things the
> > nuclear proselytizers want
> > the public to forget.
> >
> > One major industrialized country, Germany, has
> > already renounced the nuclear
> > path. It plans to scrap its plants by 2020.
> >
> > Quebec has a chance to beat it to the punch. In
> > three weeks, the province's
> > environmental-review agency will submit to the
> > government its recommendation
> > on Gentilly's post-2013 fate.
> >
> > Dismantling Gentilly would entail little deprivation
> > for Quebecers - it
> > supplies just three per cent of our electricity. But
> > it would make eastern
> > Canada safer and set an example for the world.
> >
> > haubin at thegazette.canwest.com
> >
> >
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> =====
> +++++++++++++++++++
> "Baltimore is actually a very safe city if you are not involved in the
> drug trade."
> DR. PETER BEILENSON, the city's health commissioner.
> 
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
> 
> 
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