Count on Fox to Lighten the Mood
A little comic relief from Fox. At least, I am assuming this really happened–hard to believe, but then again, this is Fox we’re talking about, and the site reporting on it is usually pretty dependable about getting the facts straight. On Your World With Neil Cavuto, Fox reportedly showed a graphic depicting the location of nuclear plants in Japan:
First, that list seems a bit sparse; there are dozens of reactors in Japan. A quick check on Wikipedia (the IEAE site isn’t responding now) shows some of them clustered, but the Fox graphic is incomplete anyway. No big surprise there.
However, one of those names Fox does include seems a little funny: Shibuyaeggman, and it appears situated right here in Tokyo. We have a nuclear plant? And is that supposed to be in Shibuya? And “Eggman”? What the–oh, yeah, this is Fox I’m looking at. Neil Cavuto, even more to the point.
If this report is accurate, and I am betting it is, Fox identified a nuclear reactor existing in a Shibuya nightclub.
I would love to hear how Fox managed this one. I have to say, it makes me feel a bit better about having been taken in by Oehmen & Co. But then, I do expect more from myself, a random guy sitting in his apartment in Tokyo, than I do from the Fox News organization.
Shibuya EggMan???
Are you f’ing kidding me?
Where the heck do they get this stuff?
FOX “News” couldn’t find Japan on a world map if its survival depended on it.
“Say, where is Tokyo? Isn’t that the capital of…Bangkok?”
At least ABC and NBC get someone to translate/proofread their Japanese newsfeeds before broadcasting them. Who in Japan would want to partner with FOX? I don’t believe FOX has any friends in that part of the world.
It’s also interesting to note that FOX put the “Sendai” label at the south end of the map, near Kagoshima (only about 1,200 miles away).
That’s what I call investigative reporting.
(Above posted by kensensei…at work).
Ken:
About the “Sendai” thing, I thought so too–but that bit actually is accurate, if misleading in name. The plant is the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant (川内原子力発電所 ), in Satsumasendai in Kagoshima.
Not that you’re wrong to automatically assume Fox got stuff wrong. This is the network which identified Iraq as “Egypt” on a map of the middle east.
This seems like the kind of “mistake” someone does on purpose, a sabotage sort of deal, because to the people who have working brains it’s amusingly ridiculous, and the cult followers won’t notice so it doesn’t matter. I like to think so.
Good source in English on what’s happening at the genpatsu:
http://mitnse.com/
Oh, that IS confusing, even for an old-hand like me. So the “Fukushima plant” is in Sendai prefecture, and the “Sendai plant” is in Kagoshima? Makes sense in a sort of odd, counter-intuitive way. (I would probably have chosen another name to avoid visitors flying 1,200 miles in the wrong direction, but that’s just me…).