"The radiation at O’Hare was coming from a routine medical shipment that was bound for Mexico.
"U.S. Customs said the radiation test was positive, but at no time was the radiation at unsafe levels."
"The scan lasted about 15 minutes and no passengers were detained."
"The airport was performing a random security check, but now all planes from Japan are being screened. American Airlines said the check at the gate is routine, and passengers might not even know they were being screened for radiation."
“It means nothing whatsoever,” Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr said. Lehr is a proponent of nuclear energy and an expert in the field. He said that the radiation measurements were miniscule, and several hundred times less than amounts that could potentially cause harm to people."
This may be a stupid question but is the media actually TRYING to cause a panic???? Geez, 48 Americans died in coal mining accidents in 2010 and they hardly noticed.
In the 50s and 60s, there were quite a few commercial aviation crashes as modern jet aircraft were developed. If we had the same MSM back then as we do today, I'm guessing we'd exclusively be riding trains and ships today.
Yes, because that leads to good ratings. An added benefit to them is a further discrediting of nuclear power so the movement to build more plants here in the effort to become energy independent is also discredited. i.e. To them it makes Palin look bad and the greenies look good
“This may be a stupid question but is the media actually TRYING to cause a panic????”
yes.
TENS OF THOUSANDS HAVE DIED from the massive earthquake / Tsunami. The worst catastrophe in Japan since WWII.
They ignore this massive tragedy, and they are focussed on a relatively insignificant (albeit serious) nuclear powerplant situation in which nobody so far has died, and where risks of massive death are nil.