Award winning media investigation into medical radiation
the newspaper reported on a fast-evolving medical world in which safety has lagged behind technical innovation. It found that financial incentives have driven the medical radiation boom,…..The award recognized papers that creatively used digital tools in the role of being a community’s watchdog
NY Times’ radiation investigation wins APME award, Google hosted news, (AP) –26 Aug 2010, NEW YORK — An investigation into the dangers of the increasing use of radiation in diagnosing and treating disease earned The New York Times a Public Service Award Wednesday from the Associated Press Managing Editors association.
In a series of stories on the dangers of wayward medical radiation, the newspaper reported on a fast-evolving medical world in which safety has lagged behind technical innovation. It found that financial incentives have driven the medical radiation boom, with the average American receiving seven times as much diagnostic radiation in a lifetime as three decades ago. It also found that there are insufficient standards for radiation, and that manufacturers sometimes send products into the market without failsafe devices……
“In a category full of outstanding entries, this was an amazing piece of journalism,” the judges said in making the award to The New York Times for the radiation boom series. “It was well-reported, well-supported, fluidly woven and artfully constructed with dramatic effect.”
“The way this human tale was pieced together from e-mails and other sources that were not subject to a gag order was ingenious, and while there were some in the medical community who cooperated with the newspaper, the secrecy and silence was enormous. But the impact and effect of The Times’ effort, which got regulations changed and led to the protection of patients and consumers, was huge,” they said…..
The award recognized papers that creatively used digital tools in the role of being a community’s watchdog. The Associated Press: NY Times’ radiation investigation wins APME award
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So far, the nuclear lobby has bought the hearts and minds of governments, but has not won the hearts and minds of the people. In a propaganda war, as in all wars, truth is the first victim. But there are many journalists and others out there who will counter the lies of the nuclear industry.
Today, across the world, the nuclear industry is unpopular. It is particularly unpopular with women, and with indigenous peoples. It’s unpopular with those who have suffered from it, such as the veterans who attended nuclear bomb tests, and the ‘downwinders’ who suffered from those same tests. It’s unpopular with families afflicted with cancer from uranium mining. It’s unpopular with Ukrainians and Japanese whose lives have been disrupted by nuclear disasters.
he nuclear industry is also unpopular higher up in the social food chain. Many academics, economists, scientists, and doctors are concerned about the dangers of all kinds that are intrinsic to the nuclear industry.
So who does like the nuclear industry? – careerists in the nuclear industry, careerists in politics, academia, careerists in the Murdoch media, highly paid uranium workers, communities that exist only because of mining, – (the latter can’t really afford not to support it).
The nuclear industry, following in the footsteps of the tobacco and asbestos industries will now blanket its servant mass media, and any other possible avenues – such as education, and politics, – with propaganda.
The main focus of the nuclear lobby’s propaganda? This will now be CLIMATE ACTION .
They’re spending an awful lot of money on this. Despite this huge investment in deception, the nuclear lobby is not winning.
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