At 21:39 13/03/2011, you wrote:
>On 12 March 2011 20:21, Julian Bradley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > At 10:17 12/03/2011, you wrote:
> >
> > Yet the numbers being used are of <2000 confirmed deaths and 9,500 missing
> > when this is a developed country and it is nearly 2 days since the
> > earthquake struck.
> >
> >
> >
>That's very quick to be that precise.
>
>They are doing well.
I'm not convinced they are doing that well (which is not to say
they're doing that badly considering the scale of the catastrophe),
but certainly "media management" programmes seem to have worked and
the world's media have played along.
What slightly amuses me given the condemnation that some Middle
Eastern countries and China have faced for the attempts to control
Internet based information transfer (social networks etc) is that
Japan, with the support of NASA, Google and others have been able to
do so much to restrict (delay, not necessarily permanently hide)
certain types of information.
I hope both I and the Grauniad are wrong, but they have finally said
today: "Tens of thousands believed to have died as result of tsunami
and huge earthquake that triggered it"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/14/japanese-death-toll-exceed-10000
FWIW at least in reasonable media savvy countries I think we're
getting closer to the situation where hiding information that could
or should be known will cause more alarm than presenting it honestly
- but maybe the list disagrees?
Julian
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