Hat tip to Annie, who sent me a link to this story. It's called "Japanese tsunami survivor returns to help save nuclear plant". Note that once again, the good articles are coming from outside the United States. This one is in the West Australian.
These heroic workers are willingly taking on a suicide mission to help save their country. I call that newsworthy. Here's an excerpt from the article:
These heroic workers are willingly taking on a suicide mission to help save their country. I call that newsworthy. Here's an excerpt from the article:
Three weeks after watching a massive wave smash into the Fukushima nuclear plant, Hiroyuki Kohno is heading back to the disaster zone to join crews struggling to avert a meltdown.
The 44-year-old radiation controller, who has worked in the nuclear industry since his late teens, has taken on a job many others have declined, with a clear understanding that the mission will likely be the last of his career.Why don't we see articles like this in US newspapers? I don't understand this lapse. It's such a compelling story yet we only find comprehensive coverage of the nuclear crisis in foreign newspapers. American "news" is officially a joke now. We can't do anything right.
