There are plenty of reasons why the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan is no longer front-page news. Rupert Murdoch, the terror attacks in Norway, brinksmanship over the debt crisis in DC; there have been plenty of hot-blooded stories to claim our immediate attention in the months since the Japanese nuclear disaster began to unfold.
The terrible reality is that this story will grind relentlessly onward, without resolution, and with nothing to break the gritty monotony of utter helplessness. Cultural restraint, which typifies the Japanese people, does not lend itself to an outcry for world attention, but to suffering alone in simple disbelief and grieving acceptance.
A compelling new documentary on the fallout situation in northern Japan, produced by NHK, has just been made available. Nearly an hour-and-a-half in length, the story is told quietly and without embellishment by independent Japanese science researchers and the people who used to make a life in the lovely region that is now a “hot-zone.”
I warn you; it is heart-breaking.
Thanks the for continuing coverage & for keeping this in the forefront.
The real reasons for keeping this out of the msm is sheer.
Quite obvious from the story why US media attention has all but ceased imho.
Though there is plenty of news to fill the news cycles, the continuing debacle in Japan which could fill a section of its own-easily-has been ranked so low it has completely dropped off in US despite ongoing though somewhat scanty, coverage in Europe as well as the blogsphere. Reuters features it plus helpful links in its Japan section of ‘World’, neither CNN nor FOX have anything but an occasional brief or story & nothing in Asia section.
This is the true reason it is not being covered. It is far from over & in many ways worse than Chernobyl & ppl are still suffering & dying from it. Though it can easily be dismissed as another thorn in the side of the nuclear industry which it undoubtedly is, the human face of suffering is an impetus for outrage & activism which has proven to be the single most important weapon against the destructiveness & dishonesty of the nuclear industry. Stories such as this send a powerful message. Everyone can easily place ourselves in the shoes of those featured in this film & imagine the heartbreak, a powerful motivator. I’m quite certain the powerful nuclear lobby which hasn’t made a dent in new nuclear for 2 years & counting sure doesn’t want to see the reality of this disaster in Japan, which continues, nor the faces of Fukushima victims in their morning paper or nightly news.