Angry Rant #25: It's pronounced "Nu-cle-ar"

Looks like the Pacific Plate's been having a bit of a party in recent months.

And everyone's invited.

Most recently is the earthquake/tsunami combo that's hit Japan's east coast pretty hard. I'm not all for guess-tamations, but to say that at least 12,000 people would have died would be pretty accurate. That's 12,000 from the earthquake and the tsunami alone - compared to the 1 death that was caused by one of the nuclear power plants exploding.

Where were you this time buddy?

But it seems that the nuclear angle is the ONLY angle when it comes to Japan - never mind the thousands of people trapped under 10m of mud and water from the 9.1 magnitude earthquake - we should all be scared of the impending nuclear meltdown in Japan.

...because shit will hit this puppy.

The push by the media to create this fear-mongering has allowed a bunch of anti-nuclear protesters to grab this story by the nuts as a massive 'I told you so'.

"I told you maaaan. Nuclear ain't the way to go!!!" - Conservative hippy

I did some calculations on the numbers I mentioned earlier, and I've come to the conclusion that the earthquake/tsunami combo is far more life-threatening than any nuclear outbreak by a factor of about...

12,000 to 1

So when I hear about the supposed trajectory of these radioactive clouds, and fires, and stories of "Modern-day Samurais", I  try to think why our good ol' buddies in the media are doing this for.

 And then it hit me...

Pictured from Right to Left: Douchebags. 

It seems to me that the media is treating every crisis like an episode of the Jersey Shore - that being it's the same repetitive stuff over and over again until they find something that they can flesh out for three episodes. So if there's a new angle then they'll latch on it faster than Donkey did with Shrek. Then of course is all the advertising and marketing organisations who are trying to get a piece of the action.

Of course this entirely my opinion, and for me, the media has cried wolf one too many times.

Don't believe the lies and spin.