NBC World News had a jaw dropping, head scratching, and finally maddening section on nuclear war.
That was my reaction, in that order. Jaw. Head. Anger.
I would like to know how many saw it, it was a few minutes long. Which is an eternity when you have to cram all domestic and world news into 30 minutes, with 5 two minute breaks to sell boner pills and adult diapers. At least the advertisers know their audience.
Anyway, let me try to describe this mess of reporting. I am not not sure my reactions were shared. I hope so because hard to separate really really great anger from just regular really great anger these days.
Reporting on North Korea NBC begins with mandatory stock film footage of a NK missile launch and reports NK has leaped from 2000 mile range missiles to 4000 to 8000 in just a few months, all the while escaping detection they were building a booster as powerful as an Atlas. Hermit Kingdom, all eyes on you and still you managed to hide your wares. Congrats, apparently everyone believes you.
Cut to 3d image of downtown LA, over which is superimposed the blast radius of a nuclear device, air detonated. Guess the size of the example used by NBC?
- time for multiple choice:
a) a 1 megaton blast of an average size hydrogen thermonuclear device thus only ghosts entire LA city? Not to mention fallout.
b) 47 megaton Russian Tzar that would vaporize entire LA County? ps - no longer operational
c) 10 KILOton Hiroshima device with 1 mile blast radius?
If you guessed c) then you get to be as puzzled as me. NK claims to have a hydrogen device, much larger.
Jaw dropped. Why show the effect of such a relatively puny uranium device?
So, Head scratching. Why show this? While at the same time the very same corporate media ratcheting up the "the military is here to save you" with ANTI-missiles, is a well worn recording.
Maddening feeling at the end. Why? Because the whole segment was how, assuming you are not vaporized instantly, big IF, you can just hang out in the radiation zone adjacent to the vaporized zone by going to the basement. For 2 weeks, if it is a big building. Yes. That really happened. No mention today's nuclear devices make Hiroshima look like a firecracker.
I kept thinking of this reality about nuclear weapons, the reality of how survivable or interceptable they really are, say mounted ten at at time. The national media is missing an opportunity to educate about the evil of these only true weapons of massive beyond imagination, and not like NBC portrays it, weapons.
For instance does the public know a single Russian nuclear ICBM for instance would blast into orbit, turn around, break into individual reentry vehicles, and drive towards their individual targets at Mach 23. The US simply can't afford or design a system that would destroy ten nuclear warheads traveling at those mind-bending speed toward the the US. Can it afford to have a reliable system to shoot down even one to cover the entire nation now apparently? Even possible?
Again the corporate media manipulates by a combination of fear mongering, false promises and military only solutions. Sometimes I think they have nothing else in toolbox but fear, lies or half-truths and false hope when it comes to war. Or most else for that matter.
And America is falling passively for it yet again...the corporate media boardrooms must be filled with mocking laughter each day they approve of the daily nightly 20 Minute TV feeding.
Sorry for the rant, just can not feel but downtrodden by the constant deflection and dumbing down, and not just Fox.
Here is at least to Mueller time! At least that keeps me sleeping.
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