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Mainstream media using double standards about costs of nuclear power

Unlike Health Care, When It Comes To Nukes, Cost Is No Object, THE HUFFINGTON POST, 6 March 2010, Saturday’s Washington Post, about the nuclear weapons decisions facing President Obama, runs longer than 1,300 words, but five a reader won’t find are “cost,” “dollars,” “money,” “debt,” or “deficit.” A reader would also search in vain for any talk of a “fiscal crisis” or a need to balance nuclear weapons priorities with available revenues.

That same reader, of course, rarely has to venture past the first sentence of a health care reform story to find that the subject is a “trillion dollar overhaul.” Occasionally, it’s noted that the trillion dollars is spread over ten years.

Unlike Health Care, When It Comes To Nukes, Cost Is No Object

March 8, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | media, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin