政府発表に対しての記者の方の追及の力が弱いように思います。by 武田先生
2011年 04月 02日
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今日の先生に記事は、ここ最近のメディアについてのコメントが、、、
これを考えても政府発表に対しての記者の方の追及の力が弱いように思います。わたくしはそれこそがメディアや学者の役割と考えています。
そう、そう、そのとおり!
http://takedanet.com/2011/04/1100_863e.html
==転載開始==
、、、前略、中略、、、
もう一つは政治の問題です。
かつては、日本に資本主義を支持する人と社会主義を支持するグループがあって、国会では与党と野党を形成していました。
こんどのような時には、資本主義を支持する与党の人はどちらかというと原発推進の立場から「このくらいの放射線なら大丈夫だ」という発言をし、それに対して、社会主義で野党の人は庶民を守ると言う見地から「危険だ、政府は隠している」と追及して、それがあるバランスになっていたように思います。
またメディアの中でも政府に批判的なメディアがあり、国民が放射線を浴びるのは良くないということを基本に、紙面を作り、それが政府を動かしたりしました。
しかし最近ではメディアも含めてオール与党のようになったので、今回の件でも政府の発表等を鋭く追及する力が弱かったようにも思います。
特にわたくしは、発電所周辺の海で基準値の3355倍の放射性ヨウ素が見つかった時に、保安院は「直ちに健康に影響はない」と記者会見で言っていました。政府は明らかに不適切なことでも言うこともあります。
それに対して、もし、わたくしがそこにたら、
1) それならば何万倍になれば危険になるのですか?
2) 健康に影響がないということは原発の近くの海で子供を海水浴させてもいいのですか?
という質問をしたと思います。これを考えても政府発表に対しての記者の方の追及の力が弱いように思います。わたくしはそれこそがメディアや学者の役割と考えています。
(平成23年4月2日 午前9時 武田邦彦執筆)
さて、
海外のサイトで記事を読んでいると良く出てくる単語。
nuclear plant:原子力発電所
radiation:放射線物質
Iodine:ヨウ素
tap water:水道
disaster:大惨事
contamination:汚染
そして、ぜひ読んでほしい今日の記事。
Yahoo.com(Fri Apr 1, 2:59 pm )の記事から
Japan nuke workers ‘have committed themselves to die if necessary’
(A young boy is screened for radiation contamination before entering an evacuation center in Fukushima, Japan, April 1, 2011.: Wally Santana/AP)
The mother of one of the atomic "samurai" working to bring Japan's stricken nuclear plant under control has said her son and his colleagues expect to die as a result of their efforts. Meanwhile, there are reports that additional workers are being offered big money to dash into the radiation-drenched heart of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, perform a job, then withdraw.
In a phone interview with Fox News, the tearful mother of a 32-year-old worker said: "My son and his colleagues have discussed it at length and they have committed themselves to die if necessary to save the nation."
"He told me they have accepted they will all probably die from radiation sickness in the short term or cancer in the long term," the woman added.
"They know it is impossible for them not to have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation."
The woman did not give her name, because she said the workers had been asked by management not to speak publicly about their ordeal, in order to minimize panic.
There are also indications that the workers aren't being provided with some crucial safety equipment. Japan's interior minister said that not all of the workers were given lead sheeting to protect themselves from the floor--which may be contaminated by radiation--while sleeping.
"My son has been sleeping on a desk because he is afraid to lie on the floor. But they say high radioactivity is everywhere and I think this will not save him," said the mother.
In another bleak sign, there are reports of additional workers being offered up to $5,000 a day to act as "jumpers"--so called because they "jump" into highly radioactive areas to quickly perform a task before fleeing with minimal exposure. But even at those rates, many candidates are turning the work down, Reuters reports.
"My company offered me 200,000 yen ($2,500) per day," one subcontractor in his 30s told a reporter."Ordinarily I'd consider that a dream job, but my wife was in tears and stopped me, so I declined."
And Ryuta Fujita, 27, told the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper he was offered $5,000 to go into Reactor 2, but likewise declined.
"I hear that guys older than 50 are being hired at high pay," Fujita said. "But I'm still young, and radiation scares me. I don't want to work in a nuclear plant again."
Last week two workers in Reactor 3 were taken to hospital after their feet were exposed to 170-180 millisieverts of radiation. The average dose for a worker at a nuclear plant is 50 millisieverts over 5 years.
Because so few workers want to venture into the plant, it's proving hard for TEPCO, that company that runs it, to assess whether efforts to cool the fuel rods are working, or even to fully diagnose the problems.
Robots are usually used for this type of work, but Fukushima's interior is so filled with debris that it's difficult for robots to operate there.