Re: NBC's anti-nuclear bias - is your town next?

[Eric Pittman <esprph@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

Does anyone know of an address where we could write NBC. I would like to
write a letter outlineing the falsehoods they are projecting onto the
public.

Eric

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Susan Gawarecki wrote:

> The recent post regarding NBC's "Nuclear Train" TV movie has confirmed
> for me that NBC has a strong anti-nuclear bias.  You see, NBC is also
> sponsoring a made-for TV movie by Cher to be called "Oak Ridge," and
> Dateline is working on a segment on Oak Ridge.
> 
> Those of us who live and/or work in Oak Ridge and are watching the
> community suffer the effects of massive DOE budget cutbacks in the 90's
> are not pleased about all the negative publicity to come.  Knowing the
> activists hired as "technical advisors" for the Cher movie, there will
> be enormous distortions of the facts.  This will only hurt a town that
> is trying to recast its economic base to rely more on private-sector
> businesses, preferably high-tech ones, to replace the high-paying
> technical jobs that are being lost.
> 
> The movie is described below:
> Oak Ridge (NBC): Cher returns to the subject of health and the nuclear
> industry as executive producer of this telefilm about a couple who move
> to a quiet community in Tennessee only to find an alarming number of
> people with rare diseases.
> 
> Susan Gawarecki
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