Plutonium breach, Partial meltdown

Re:Plutonium breach, Partial meltdown by Rhapso on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:51AM (#2383082)

Sakae Muto, a Tokyo Electric vice-president, said the traces of plutonium-238, 239 and 240 were in keeping with levels found in Japan in the past due to particles in the atmosphere from nuclear testing abroad.

"I apologize for making people worried," Muto said.

At the bottom of the article, it even admits that there is nothing to worry about, after spending the rest of the page inciting panic. This is journalism?

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Re:Plutonium breach, Partial meltdown by jameskilton on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @12:14PM (#2383197)

This is modern journalism, and the logical by-product of 24-hour news. When there's no actual news to report, everything becomes news, gets jumped on and beaten to death.

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Re:Plutonium breach, Partial meltdown by r00fus on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @01:34PM (#2383540)

Modern mainstream news-media is info-terrorism.

Repeatedly showing videos of the 9/11 attack or the tsunami as it wipes out homes over and over again every hour is not enlightening nor does it spew anything but fear.

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Re:Plutonium breach, Partial meltdown by hollerith on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @01:05PM (#2383413)

Yes. Who upvotes crap like this?

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Re:Plutonium breach, Partial meltdown by PatrickTulskie on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @01:19PM (#2383464)

I so which I had enough karma to downvote crap like this.

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Re:Plutonium breach, Partial meltdown by weaksauce on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @05:45PM (#2384635)

There is no karma limit to be able to downvote articles but you can flag it if you want though and if it gets flagged enough it will be killed.

The only karma limit is to be able to downvote comments and I think that's around 200 or so; maybe more now.

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Re:Plutonium breach, Partial meltdown by bmnbug on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @02:13PM (#2383715)

Maybe it is people who only read the headlines before choosing to vote and/or read the article.

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