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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Honestly, if the real news were actually reported, our government would collapse in a year and the corporations would follow shortly afterwards. The media is here to anesthetize us.

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Now it seems like a 24-7-365 thing.

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It's what will make failure to report the demonstrations in Japan successful, people will wander away b/c they will see no effect, eventually, no event.

If you control the media, you control people's reality; if you control people's reality, you control their behavior.

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1982

In 1982, a partial core meltdown occurred in reactor No. 1 at the Chernobyl plant. The extent of the accident was not made public until years later, in 1985. The reactor was repaired and put back into operation within months.

1986

On Saturday, April 26, 1986, a disaster occurred at reactor No. 4, which has been widely regarded as the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. As a result, reactor No. 4 was completely destroyed and has since been enclosed in a concrete and lead sarcophagus to prevent further escape of radiation. Large areas of Europe were affected by the accident. The radiation cloud spread as far away as Norway, in Scandinavia.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant utilized one large, open turbine hall for all four reactors without any separating walls.[citation needed] Each reactor had two turbines. On October 11, 1991, a fire broke out in the turbine hall of Reactor 2.[6] The fire began in Reactor 2's Turbine 4[citation needed] (??-4 in Russian) while the turbine was being idled for repairs. A faulty switch caused a surge of current to the turbine, igniting insulating material on some electrical wiring.[7] This subsequently led to hydrogen, used as a turbine coolant, being leaked into the turbine hall "which apparently created the conditions for fire to start in the roof and for one of the trusses supporting the roof to collapse,". [8] The adjacent reactor hall and reactor were unaffected.

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After the explosion at reactor four, the remaining three reactors at the power plant continued to operate. In 1991, reactor two suffered a major fire, and was subsequently decommissioned.[9] In November 1996, reactor one was shut down, followed by reactor three on December 15, 2000, making good on a promise by Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma that the entire plant would be closed.[9]

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
That's why I am so rabid about keeping the Internet free - it really is the last bastion, and the only antidote available to the poisonous propaganda,

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