By Ed Randazzo
There is something basically wrong about exploiting a human tragedy on such an enormous scale to promote a political agenda. The human tragedy and the need for assistance and prayers are supplanted by the visuals of nuclear power plants and endless prognostications of dire consequences on NBC Nightly News. The disproportionate coverage is wrong and insensitive in a profound way.
In Japan, where an earthquake and ensuing tsunami damaged, among much else, nuclear power plants, nuclear power overshadows the earthquake and the tsunami as the villain among Western journalists.
The New York Times coverage tells us less about the tragedy in Japan than it does about the New York Times. We glean from the reporting that journalists working for the newspaper of record are skeptical about the proposed expansion of nuclear power in the U.S. Less apparent to readers is what is happening a half-a-world away. In Rahm Emanuel fashion, the paper has not let a good crisis go to waste.
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