{"id":34669,"date":"2011-03-25T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34669"},"modified":"2011-10-12T00:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T05:40:09","slug":"more-on-media-coverage-of-the-japan-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/25\/more-on-media-coverage-of-the-japan-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Media Coverage of the Japan Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/Brooker.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34671 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/Brooker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/24\/media-coverage-of-the-fukishima-nuclear-reactor-crisis\/\">media coverage, and possible exaggeration of, the problems at the Fukushima nuclear reactors <\/a>in Japan. As a follow-up, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanprobe.com\/2011\/03\/22\/charlie-brooker-comments-on-sensationalist-media-coverage-of-japan-quakenuclear-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Probe<\/a> I found a clip of Charlie Brooker discussing sensationalist of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor. His takeaway message: If you can&#8217;t distinguish your news teasers from a video game ad, you may have a problem:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tVWhZ_qGD7g?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also, Fox News seems to have somehow mistaken a club in Tokyo for a nuclear reactor:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5vYYgUVNODw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted about media coverage, and possible exaggeration of, the problems at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan. As a follow-up, over at Japan Probe I found a clip of Charlie Brooker discussing sensationalist of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor. His takeaway message: If you can&#8217;t distinguish your news teasers from a video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,129,343,1821],"class_list":["post-34669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-disaster","tag-media","tag-tvmovies","tag-nation-japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40413,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34669\/revisions\/40413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}