And not giving it where is it is not due.
This video is a great indictment of the foreign media coverage-by all of the US major cable news networks.
His points about:
1) The geography are quite pertinent.
2) Life in Tokyo is moving to normal
3) The media has lost its mind in reporting this disaster-and is putting uneccessary pressure on families to leave Japan.
I think he is right about the news reporting-and is in great contrast to the Japanese and even the Channel News Asia reporting on the subject.
Frankly speaking can we trust the Japanese govt or the management in the power plant to tell the truth? I’ve worked enough years in a Japanese company to know that sometimes withhold vital information out of Japanese pride.
150 miles is not exactly very far. A massive explosion and an assisting wind will probably engulf Tokyo in a radiation cloud which nobody can say for certain it won’t happen. But if it does happen my bet is that it will be too late to evacuate by then.
Many companies have already arranged for their staff to be relocated to HK, Seoul and Singapore. The companies have a responsibility to care for their workers. Why stay and gamble with your life when you have the option of working in a city like HK?
Dramatic news coverage with melodramatic pictures and music is part and parcel of modern day television. It may cause panic but it also brings attention to an issue that requires some attention. Sometimes you can’t trust everything you hear or see on the news and it is up to the individual to decide if the reports are dubious.
panic sells
Why stay and gamble with your life when you have the option of working in a city like HK?
I don’t have a good answer for that-but I can bet those same companies are jettisoning their Japanese employees while moving their favored ex-pat empolyees to the other locations as the S.O’s heartless American company did a few years back?
The Japanese people are not watching the US “drive by media” and most Americans already figured out that not “all” of Japan was wiped out.
My #1 rule after any disaster, ignore most of what the media assumes is taking place.
The Japanese government should have denied Diane Sawyer, Katie Curic and the other fear merchants visas to enter Japan after the event. I watched as Diane Sawyer flew around in a helocopter and then back on the ground quipped that there was not a lot of air support to get supplies to the survivors. I wonder where her helicopter came from? And she seem to have no trouble getting the ABC private jet back to the US while others were stranded at Japanese airports.
If the same thing were to happen in Singapore or Hong Kong, the Japanese will be sending their own back in an instant without taking chances. Am I right?
For the Japanese its their home so they are not rushing to the airport. Its either a real sense of belonging or a lack of options that is keeping foreigners in Tokyo. For those that possesses none of the above, the airport is the place to go~
Here’s hoping everything turns out fine because I’ve not been to Tokyo in 3-4 years…
I’m not so sure I accept your premise. I think of Japan as more of a “home” than I do the US. I know there are a lot of foreigners who feel the same way. Those that don’t are the ones referred to in Japanese as Bakka Gaijin.
Now that said-I have personal issues since I would gladly live in either Japan, Hong Kong, or SIngapore. It is just this preference of the employers there for strapping young 30 year old Chinese or Japanese men that is getting in the way. I consider that an outrage. 🙂