Ebbing my tuckus

New horizons in reporter whoredom.

In my last post I linked to an LA Times article with the headline:

Japan nuclear crisis ebbing, U.S. experts say

It starts with the following paragraphs:

Although the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has not yet been stabilized, there is no evidence that overheating during the last month has resulted in any melting of the reactor vessels or their containment structures, Obama administration officials said Thursday.

If that assessment is correct, then significant additional releases of radioactivity into the environment will be limited, and emergency crews should have a far better chance of preventing further damage to the plant's reactors.

The assessment, provided to The Times on background, suggests that the plant is unlikely to suffer a complete meltdown, in which uranium fuel gets so hot that it melts through the bottom of the reactor and containment vessels, spewing high-level radiation into the plant's underlying foundation.

"We are a long way from a point where anybody would say this is stable," a senior administration official said. "But it is not a runaway. For a long time, we will be at a declining level of risk."

My emphasis, obviously.

Why oh why, LA Times reporter Ralph Vartabedian, would you grant anonymity to 'experts' or 'senior officials' speaking on 'background'? What does 'background' mean here? Is it 'classified', or 'secret'? 

Don't you realize that you are being used like a two dollar whore for a worthless story that serves only to prop up the tottering edifice of the nuclear industry and their boy Barack Obama?


Yes, I bet you do.