This is my outlined summary of ways whereby the Japanese and US media misrepresented the Fukushima disaster. I will be providing evidence to support each of the claims made below:
•During
the early days of the disaster the Japanese press reported
–
That no explosions had occurred
–That
no more explosions would occur within hours of more explosions
–That
no meltdowns had occurred
–That
no radiation had been released
–that
the effects of radiation released was too small to affect health
–That
contamination was limited to people’s clothes
–That
no danger was posed by radioactive iodine in tap water
•US
news media were even less critical than the Japanese press in reporting Tepco and Japanese government assertions and were unable to acknowledge in print
–that
meltdowns had occurred
–that
melt-throughs were
reported
–that
cold shutdown is a fantasy
•Japanese,
American and other nations’ media all systematically under-represented the
scale of radiation releases, their ongoing dynamics, and their probable health
effects
–In
particular, emphasis on “no immediate effects” and “no acute effects”
functioned to mislead the public about severity of releases
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