Damn the media just keeps getting worst

[nadinbrzezinski]

No Cenk you cannot get yield for a nuclear explosion out of a reactor. The physics and the geometry is just not there.

Oh and the hydrogen was produced from exposed rods... you too can separate water into hydrogen and Oxygen. It is usually done with electricity, but the temps and pressure here, are driving this.

Yep I know a few people who KNOW a lot about reactors and all that. To put it simply the lack of good reporting IS mind boggling.

[Donnachaidh]

1. If you can't dazzle them with briliance, baffle them with bullshit

That's our mainstream media these days. :eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. It is not just our media

the brief from the WH this morning was mind boggling...

[hlthe2b]

3. You know... my field is medicine and statistics, yet

I have a strong general science...background. I certainly understand the basics of radiation and risk. That said, I most certainly don't pretend to have expertise in the specifics of nuclear power plants, the engineering, and the technology. Yet some of the "experts" they have gotten on to discuss risk and generally what is happening (ignoring, the paid industry propagandists) have been extremely questionable and there appears little process to try to differentiate between who has expertise and whether it is appropriate to the issue at hand.

Worst, though, is that while I expect nothing more of the newsreaders/pundits than to ask the questions the lay public would ask and LISTEN to the answers, they seem incapable of doing even that. Rather, they continually interrupt or even contradict the "expert" --that is when they are not repeating the question just answered in great detail and on an acceptably "simple" level.

I despair of ever having true quality media in this country again.... Sigh....:shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. i just went to pick up a car from the shop

they came to pick me up. I spent the whole ride explaining to the driver we will not get a mushroom cloud out of this. Hell in the morning we spent (a retired USN Captain and I) the whole ride explaining to driver at the most basic of levels this.

He said... I am so damn confused... they say things that are contradictory.

I was ready to throw a shoe when they said you can take the iodine after exposure... NO... you need to take it BEFORE...

Ou media is doing a good job at confusing people