Freedom of the Press

Lefticus Loonaticus

So just incase anyone didnt know, in Japan there is a nuclear disaster many fold the size of what Chernobyl was. It looks likely to be one of the worst disasters in the history of mankind.

Theres other threads in CT and AH about the finer details so ill just get to the point about this thread.

This story was front page news non stop for weeks and weeks. Then one day it just stopped. They drop a story about it here or there to try and pretend they are covering it, but anyone with half a brain can see the mainstream media are complicit in covering this up.

Why? For economic reasons, political reasons and prob for the health of the nuclear industry is why this story is being suppressed. Would you go and buy a japanese product if you knew it would give you cancer?

So, I ask you, media people, if a powerful lobby group like the nuclear industry, or a collection of powerful governments can just click their fingers at the media and tell them what to and what not to do - then basically we do not have freedom of the press at all and we are living in a complete fantasy land in terms of media freedom?

Prove me wrong please .

uncle_sam_ie

Lefticus Loonaticus wrote: »

So just incase anyone didnt know, in Japan there is a nuclear disaster many fold the size of what Chernobyl was. It looks likely to be one of the worst disasters in the history of mankind.

Theres other threads in CT and AH about the finer details so ill just get to the point about this thread.

This story was front page news non stop for weeks and weeks. Then one day it just stopped. They drop a story about it here or there to try and pretend they are covering it, but anyone with half a brain can see the mainstream media are complicit in covering this up.

Why? For economic reasons, political reasons and prob for the health of the nuclear industry is why this story is being suppressed. Would you go and buy a japanese product if you knew it would give you cancer?

So, I ask you, media people, if a powerful lobby group like the nuclear industry, or a collection of powerful governments can just click their fingers at the media and tell them what to and what not to do - then basically we do not have freedom of the press at all and we are living in a complete fantasy land in terms of media freedom?

Prove me wrong please .

Shut up slave :D (i'm joking btw)

goose2005

Lefticus Loonaticus wrote: »

So just incase anyone didnt know, in Japan there is a nuclear disaster many fold the size of what Chernobyl was. It looks likely to be one of the worst disasters in the history of mankind.

Worse than the Black Death? Any proof at all?

This story was front page news non stop for weeks and weeks. Then one day it just stopped. They drop a story about it here or there to try and pretend they are covering it, but anyone with half a brain can see the mainstream media are complicit in covering this up.

No. It didn't vanish all of a sudden, it drifted out of the headlines as time passes. And if the "MSM" are covering it up, why can I find tons of recent articles about it?

Why? For economic reasons, political reasons and prob for the health of the nuclear industry is why this story is being suppressed. Would you go and buy a japanese product if you knew it would give you cancer?
So, I ask you, media people, if a powerful lobby group like the nuclear industry, or a collection of powerful governments can just click their fingers at the media and tell them what to and what not to do - then basically we do not have freedom of the press at all and we are living in a complete fantasy land in terms of media freedom?

Where's the evidence of this? According to this http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/japan.nuclear/index.html, the Japanese government have actually given control of the nuclear safety agency to the Environment ministry because the economy ministry was too close to the nuclear industry.

brian_t

Lefticus Loonaticus wrote: »

Prove me wrong please .

I think perhaps your post might have been better suited to the "Conspiracy Theories" forum.

coylemj

Lefticus Loonaticus wrote: »

This story was front page news non stop for weeks and weeks. Then one day it just stopped. They drop a story about it here or there to try and pretend they are covering it, but anyone with half a brain can see the mainstream media are complicit in covering this up.

Why would the media in this part of the world cover it up? Does the director general of RTE own shares in the Japanese nuclear industry? Does the editor of the Irish Times own shares in a Canadian uranium mine? You have a fertile imagination!

There is no 'cover up', the media moved on because that's how the system works, their viewers/readers want new stories, not rehashed old stuff.

The exact same thing happens with earthquakes, plane crashes, floods and any other disaster you care to mention. If we want repeats we can tune into Dave or GOLD or watch 'Reeling in the years', on news bulletins we expect new stories.