Please check the JPQuake Bad Reporting Wall of Shame for some excellent examples of over-the-top sensationalist reporting on the nuclear accident in Japan.
Here are some more headlines that we'd like to see:
"Millions of Japanese Suffer Deadly Radiation Poisoning in German Newspaper!"
"Entire Coastline of Northern Japan now Surrounded by Water!"
"Smoke Billowing from Factories in Japan a Thousand Times
"Radiators Active in New Toyota Factory!"
"Western media in race against time; hysterical nuclear bullshit nearing critical meltdown, yet millions are still uncontaminated!"
And, finally;
"Fukushima Nuclear Reporters Still Valiantly Holding on in Fight to Write About Nuclear Holocaust!"
If you have any great headlines, please add them into "comments"
All things about the media, marketing, business, Japan and other musings by Mike in Tokyo Rogers.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
1 comment:
Comments must be succinct & relevant to the story. Comments are checked frequently and abusive, rude or profane comments will be deleted. I’m just one of many bloggers who answer questions online and sometimes for the press. I usually handle questions about Japan, marketing or the economy, so in those areas I’m more likely to make sense and less likely to say something really stupid. If I post something here that you find helpful or interesting, that’s wonderful. This is my personal blog. If you don't like what you have read here then, just like when you go into a restaurant or bar that allows smoking, if you don't like it, there's something at the front that has hinges on it and it is called a "door."
And don’t forget the ‘taunting you with news’ sound bites they feed us on television:
ReplyDelete“Pacific Ocean evaporates!!! - Film at ten…”
Or maybe:
“Everyone in the world is dead!!! - On-The-Spot-News- at nine…”
And then the actual report is nothing like the sensationalist nonsense that got the mindless masses to tune in…
Steve 'Poots' Candidus