On a bit of a side note, actually just had a skype conversation in the wee hours this morning(in Japan time) with my mother because she was watching CNN and feared for my life. After I explained the situation here from another point of view she calmed down and made a very good point.
If they actually showed more of what the people in northern Japan are going through; thousands confirmed dead and tens of thousands missing and feared dead. Not to mention hundreds of thousands displaced and now homeless, many without adequate food and clean water supplies, they might be able to create more awareness of the situation which would help with getting aid and donations to the area. The rescue operations are being seriously hampered by constant quakes and aftershocks, which if centered offshore bring the threat of another tsunami. Instead of just focusing on fear-mongering about the troubled nuclear reactors. Over-using phrases like meltdown, critical, nuclear catastrophe, etc., and attaching them to mental images of widespread destruction and deathly disease while seemingly ignoring a lot of the facts, often doing a poor job in translating Japanese to English, and flubbing some of the numbers.
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