7.0 earthquake

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43699676/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/



Everyone OK?

 

Saw a mini news flash but as always, life is normal in Yamaguchi. We felt nothing.

Yakumo

 

OT:
What is about the nuclear power plants from the last Tsunami?
Did they manage to secure the situation?

(Sry but I didnt hear anything about that for months, no one needs to write a 30 site report now )

So, anyone here affected this time?

 

Exactly. This is what the media do. They seem to care about tragedies and kick up a fussbut 2 weeks after will pack up their stuff and go home after making a tonne of money and leaving communities in disrepair without giving them a penny.

Columbine,Japan 2011, Chile 2010 the list goes on.

(If anybody captain obvious's me... fffff)

 

Nah, it's all ok now or at least that's what I heard. They did find some radiation in crops but that was to be expected.

Yakumo

 

3 weeks from now - TEPCO REVEALS THAT 7.0 EARTHQUAKE CAUSED HUGE RADIATION LEAKS ALL OVER JAPAN

 

The JMA rated it as a 4 (and then only just as most places felt a 3, ie a bit of a tremble) technically there was a 5 the day before around Okinawa...

 

Of course it's annoying that catastrophes are usually only covered on the news for a couple of weeks time although the situation does not improve, but you can hardly blame the media for not taking responsibility for what happened there. Their job is to report what happened, not to care about the people and turn into a local welfare institution.

 

Yeah, it was just a little stinker compared to the many many after shocks we had immediate the big one from 11th, which went up to a 5+ and sometimes 3 a day.

 

They profit off of those people. The least they could do is atleast donate a bit of money if their are appropriate charities. That isn't taking responsibility.

 

Agreed in an ideal setup IMO however there is the aspect of being a lone wolf int he news business and just focused on getting through life, and that's probably how most of the news media feels and yeah it isn't they're obliged responsiblity for anything more than just to report what happened and move on.


If anything maybe it could be that the news coverege indeed indirectly gets support by letting the masses know what happened :-0 :shrug:

 

The thing is they don't let you know what's going on, they make up their own shit. I don't want to single out a country but the American news coverage we saw in Japan about Fukushima was a joke. They gave the impression that it was doomsday or something. CNN had some tit who said he had just landed in Tokyo and it was a ghost town! WTF? It was very strange that the camera angle they were using was pointing to the sky so as not to capture any people walking by.

I'm sure the news in other counties was just as bad but since I never saw them I can't comment.

Yakumo

 

I can insure you Yakumo, it was the very same case in Switzerland & Germany. Ridiculous and hilarious Horror stories en masse.

 

If I'm to believe all my friends living in non-English speaking European countries, they were 1000x worse. That's not to defend CNN though -- they were ridiculous.

 

Granted, but you guys in Japan have to admit that it was a very serious situation and it still is. Some facts are not to be published until months or even years after the incident. For a start Tepco didn't inform the public about the three meltdowns which were known to them for a considerably longer time. It's not all that "ridiculous", it's a serious matter. Back when Chernobyl was up to date, the retarded leaders of the Sovjet Union did not inform the West about the full scale of the accident until there was already contaminated water falling from the sky over Western Germany.

Don't condemn the media for being hyperactive this time, what's so bad about being a little more sensitive to a subject this serious? And it really was (is) serious, especially because nobody at the time knew what was going to happen. Who knows what we still don't know.

 

Hyperactive is one thing, talking out of your arse and spouting shit is another. I mean I saw the Tokyo Ghost Town story which was all bull shit made to strike fear in to the world. I saw another that said the whole of Japan is in a chaotic state. What? Nothing ever changed where i live. Life was as normal and still is.

I'm all for information but making things up to get better ratings is not cool. This is why net news is better than TV news imo.

 

This. They made life stressful in places they shouldn't have: specifically, the area immediately surrounding me. The news was by and large based on hearsay and presumption, not fact. That is NOT news. It was bullshit, and I must say, from what little of the foreign media I kept up with, the Germans were at the top of the shit list. French weren't too far behind, despite their marriage to nuclear energy. It has basically made me not want to read CNN... or at least not take them seriously.

I believe there's a link to the May 11th Earthquake & Tsunami Journalist Wall of Shame in here. Read it... cringe...

EDIT:
http://www.jpquake.info/home-1/journalism-wall-of-shame

This is an excerpt from a severity level 9:

And that's the point I was supposed to make. How the fuck is my family supposed to rest easy w/ tits like that reporting the news? How am I supposed to have a normal life when my inbox & phone are going off w/ people telling me to evacuate in the closest military transport? Destructive journalism. I should copyright that term.

 

yeah, so true. At least I could calm my folks by telling them that nothing is really serious at the moment, and if the worst will occur, we still would have enough time to move on. And anyway, you're never 100% save at any places in the world, so as long things are not critical, why produce panic for nothing?

 

Agreed, it was the panic caused to my family and friends back in the UK and the fact that they were being panicked in turn by all their family and friends asking if I was OK that hacked me off. I felt really selfish that I was causing all that worry and I just wanted them to pay attention to the real issues outside Tokyo.

In reality I was sitting in catwalk shows for Japan Fashion Week and still doing all the socializing that goes with it, while everyone outside Japan thought I was in some kind of refugee centre.

Odd times indeed. Oh and a friend of mine got sent 2 weeks of food and a Geiger-counter all the way from the UK...

For me Twitter was the best way to stay up to date, as it was good to constantly hear from people who were still in their offices and just getting on with life while the news relentlessly rolled on.

 

Can you make some geiger counts in your neighborhoods, please?