[NukeNet] Response to Nuclear bandwagon

[Roger Herried]

Dear NukeNet readers:

I've been actviely monitoring nuclear power related stories for years and 
years. We are clearly witnessing a dramatic upswing in the promotion of 
nuclear power by the corporate media.
Two years ago, I would see a couple of pro-nuclear articles a month. A year 
ago, it might have gone to 10 a month, 6 months ago, it was 10 a week, 
today, I'm seeing as many as 10 a day, promoting nuclear stories across the 
country.

In an alarming turn, I noticed a good story critical to the nuclear power 
industry yesterday on a progressive wire service, and yet 3 out 4 comments 
were pro-nuclear.  In fact, they were almost all NEI canned promo campaign 
styled packets just dropped in with all the latest "Here's why we need 
nuclear" etc.

I think its about time, we start doing something about this in a bit more 
organized fashion.  Where's our ten reasons why nuclear power is a bad 
idea, or Patrick Moore nearly destroyed Greenpeace back in 1979 due him and 
his friends Cocaine habbit in Vancouver, later becoming a flak for the 
logging industry in Canada...

Isn't it time that either the national organizations that are opposed to 
nuclear start countering this media rush, or we are going to be way behind 
on this issue.  How hard is it for these groups, like Pubic Citizen, IEER, 
UCS, Sierra Club, GreenPeace or NIRS is it to put out brief fact sheet, 
comment in several different formats that can be easily shaped to fit the 
usual, Promo about Patrick Moore, global warming, economics and safety 
slogans I've been seeing over and over again???

Isn't it about time that we create an alert list where the latest media PR 
push, gets a counter to the NEI stories?  The above groups are not helping 
to counter this growing campaign. Isn't it time that they did!

R