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-------------------------------------------------------- Please donate to assist in the Japanese disaster.  Visit http://disasterjapan.wordpress.com/ for a list of reputable agencies that make a difference. -------------------------------------------------------- Two-plus weeks on, and the ludicrous media hysteria around Fukushima is finally starting to die a painful, gasping death. We also start to see the occasional rational analysis of the entire affair: Your Man In Japan Praying for meltdown: The media and the nukes (The Register) Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate (also The Register) Unfortunately, these are still few and far between. As horrible as it may seem, one wonders what would have happened if all the affected nuclear reactors had simply been destroyed. More lives would have been lost.  But they would only be a small fraction of the total lives lost, and probably wouldn't even be remarked upon by the mainstream media. The ...

Ever since the nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station No 1 began, the entire news media has been in an absolute frenzy. And yet, for all of the improvements in the 'information age' - with updates happening in real time from the far side of the world (to us) - there is so little actual information.  The news sites talk, babble, scream, moan, and publish endless one-liners from so-called "experts" that range between guarded optimism to predictions of total apocalypse.  And yet they say nothing, all the while trying to generate excitement about their meaningless utterings. The causes are many.  Certainly Tokyo Electric Power has not been saying a whole lot to reporters.  And why should they?  Do they not have enough to do without further goading the media machine?  Like talk to the IAEA, which they can (and should) be doing better?  Or maybe devoting every second of time towards pursuing every possible, potential solutio...