Mainstream Failure
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Mainstream Failure
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#2Thanks for the link to Randall Munroe's chart, that was very interesting.
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#3I agree, nytimes.com has been insanely frantic. I can't figure out if they are rabid anti-nuclear or they simply hate Japan. I recently stopped looking at the site. But where does one go for well-written, in-depth news?
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#4Tim has it exactly right. Searching some of the mainstream media sites in my area of the world -- Fairfax (smh.com.au) and Fox (news.com.au) -- shows up no results for 'tsunami' in their front page and world news section aside from badly informed reports about the nuclear reactors.
That's a really sad indictment of the state of our media organisations and where their focus lies.
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#5I for one can't ever trust anything reported by any Western 'news' outlet again, from Fox News to NPR. What's surprised me the most is the very poor quality of the BBC reporting which is apparently worse than most American companies.
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#6I suppose this is why more and more people that I know (in the US) are turning to Der Spiegel and Al Jazeera for their news.
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#7One of the things that annoys me slightly is that while our news is loaded with the nuclear accidents, I haven't heard any mainstream media talk about this refinery fire caused by earthquake which had been raging for 10 days, putting who knows how much pollution in the air.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/japan-refinery-idU...
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#8I suppose this is why more and more people that I know (in the US) are turning to Der Spiegel and Al Jazeera for their news.
der spiegel lost a LOT of credibility due to its blatant anti-nuclear messaging right from the beginning of the fukushima reports.
instead of explaining what the hell was happening, they started chernobyl discussions and simply forgot about the actual disaster.
the media in german speaking countries went full retard of fukushima.
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#9Nowadays I have trouble looking at any mainstream news sites without being incredibly disappointed.
I'd be willing to give actual money to an organization that a) actually understood what they were reporting and b) reported facts rather than PR, hyperbole and human interest angles but I haven't been able to find one.
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#10Tim has it exactly right. Searching some of the mainstream media sites in my area of the world -- Fairfax (smh.com.au) and Fox (news.com.au) -- shows up no results for 'tsunami' in their front page and world news section aside from badly informed reports about the nuclear reactors. That's a really sad indictment of the state of our media organisations and where their focus lies.
Big list of independent Australian media:
http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/dw95o/big_list_of...