| Joelcool7 said: Someone else recently made a thread about how American Media is so worried about radiation reaching North America and how American's are freaking out. Alittle Dejavu, too lazy to actually find the thread but it was fairly recent. I find it sort of funny, but the case in which the media is pushing it. I live In BC and Vancouver is the closest your gonna get to the radiation in Canada and our media isn't really freaking out. Infact the media said Iodine pills were selling out but had a nuclear expert on television to assure people that the radition leak if a major one occurs would not actually be significant in North America. Their are paranoid people everywhere around the globe, I know it was reported on the news that around the Ontario Nuclear plant people were also buying Iodine pills as if that reactor was going to blow. After 9/11 people freaked that Vancouver would get suicide bombed or a plane fly into it. People freak out when given a chance and logic doesn't seem to stop them. Its very easy to scare a population. Look at Y2K Microsoft and others re-assured everyone nothing was going to happen, the Governments of the world said nothing was going to happen. Yet tons of people hid in bomb shelters and storm cellars expecting the world to end. People are idiots just take this 2012 thing, scientists and archeologists are all saying now that they were wrong and the actual calendar ended already. The day in 2012 is the wrong date the calendar is already over. Yet thousands of moron's believe the world is going to end in 2012. (Mods - Please don't ban me for calling them morons) Fact is people always have to be scared of something, even if everything was going perfect they would find something to freak out about. Its human nature to get freaked out! |
This. And the media profits off of these people. I also think it has alot to do with education level (less educated people are more gullible).
Now the media has most of the attention focused on the radiation aspect in Japan because it is more interesting than the real problem - people dying from the Tsunami and quake itself. Also, the fact that people aren't getting enough food and water in shelters.
In reality, you are more likely going to die from gettin run over by a car. However, that is less interesting than radiation.
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Conservatives: Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.
