Cracking the corporate media's Iron Curtain around death at Three Mile Island

[babsbunny]

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2009/1736

Harvey Wasserman

April 1, 2009

Chernobyl exploded and Three Mile Island missed by a whisker. They both killed people.

But thirty years after the Pennsylvania melt-down, a Soviet-style Iron Curtain has formed between the corporate media and the alternatives, with nuclear power at its center.

The Soviets denied for days that the Chernobyl accident had happened at all. America's parallel corporate media says "no one died at TMI."

Take National Public Radio's Scott Simon. On March 28, Simon smirked on air that "no one was killed or injured" at Three Mile Island, "not so much as a sprained ankle."

Except when people are fleeing them, as they did 30 years ago, radiation releases have never been linked directly to joint sprains.

But cancer, leukemia, birth defects, stillbirths, malformations, spontaneous abortions, skin lesions, hair loss, respiratory problems, sterility, nausea, cataracts, a metallic taste, premature aging, general loss of bodily function and more can be caused by radioactive emissions of the type that poured out of TMI. And all such ailments have been documented there OUTside the corporate media.

[maryf]

1. And they are pushing to expand nuclear power again

We certainly won't hear about the illnesses now, such a shame NPR has been sucked in to the MSM so strongly...

[cojoel]

3. repeal Price Anderson

If the Price Anderson Act was repealed for any new reactors, there wouldn't be any new reactors. No private entity would be willing to assume the multi-billion dollar risk.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. K and R. If you repost this to "Media" it will stay around longer. But,

you may want to wait til you get 5 Recs.