| Ail said: There are 120 millions of japanese struggling through an earthquake , a tsunami and what looks to be like a very bad nuclear incident and all I see the western ( american or european) journalists talk about is whether potential harmfull radiations will reach California or France.
Don't they realize that for that level of radiation to cross the ocean the whole japan island would have to be fried and become an irradiated wasteland ??? For god sake, stop looking at your navel..... You'll get10 times more radiation sitting in California from doing a catscan than you will ever get from potential radiations clouds coming from Japan.......... |
I think you've overlooked the reasons for reporting in this way. Well for one, news networks generally report news that will be relevent to the target demographic and you make it relevent by looking at risks to citizens of the country watching it - After all, who worries about the starving children in africa on a daily basis?
Your point is actually wrong too. Radiation travels with air currents mostly. So if it was blown to california, then Japan would be completely in the clear. Not sure about news where you are but here in the UK the news networks have been quite clear and concise with their evaluation and not spinning stuff to make it overly relevent to the UK population.
