Editor, The Times:
Large cracks with steam rising from the ground have been reported around reactors one, two, and three at Fukushima nuclear plant.
Pieces of fuel rods found at least two kilometers from the site indicating that a major explosion took place in at least one of the now defunct reactors in this disaster-ridden Japanese nuclear plant.
Once again I had to rely upon alternate media - in this case progressive radio - to learn of this possible “China Syndrome.” At the moment of this writing a 6.5 earthquake had struck in northeast Japan, right where the doomed Fukushima sits.
We are assured that all is normal. Yes, if one ignores steam rising through fissures in the ground, one can suppose it is.
Now, as they used to say at Monty Python, it’s time for something completely different.
A month or more back some 250,000 demonstrators descended upon London.
A quarter of a million ordinary English folk protested David Cameron’s “make the peasants pay” austerity program.
The event was completely ignored by the media in this country, including the CBC. I had to tune into German public radio to learn about it.
Then the hooligans hit. The burning, looting, anarchy and even death could not be ignored.
Of course all connection to Cameron’s austerity and the violence on the streets has been strenuously denied.
When, oh when, is our media going to act like its job is to inform us, not just cover for a clapped-out, so-called free market capitalism that, as my waggish friend used to say, ‘... is taking us to hell in a handcart?’
When, oh when, one has to ask.
Dennis Peacock
Clearwater, B.C.