(Picture nicked from BBC news website)
On the 6 a.m. Radio news this morning (don't ask) one of the headlines was that a nuclear power station in Scotland was to be blown up this morning. Now that is careless - careless headlining that is - blowing up a nuclear power station is exactly what you must not do. Let's just wipe out Annan and its envrions; I don't think so.
They actually blew up some cooling towers - just the same things you get at coal, oil or gas power stations. Things that, unless something went drastically wrong, have never been 'nuked' as the saying goes. Lots of people came out to watch the event apparently - so presumably fear of getting zapped themsleves by nasty stray neutrons (or alphas, betas or gammas) was allayed.
What it made me wonder though, as happens every time I hear a careless headline, is how much other rubbish I swallow whole because I know no different. What a massive responsibility it is to speak to the public...
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You're absolutely right. every time the news talks about medicines (the one subject actually i'm knowledgeable about), it's complete rubbish. i've taken to presuming that everything that appears about money has 10,000 bank managers screaming "NO !" at the telly (or is it just me that does that?)
A couple of years ago, i read in The Times an interesting piece about the village of Howarth in North Yorkshire. the made it sound remarkably like the WEST Yorkshire village of HAWORTH. It even had a family of female authors called Bronte. Who'd have thought there would be two such similar places?
They say the truth is out there. that may be correct, because there's not many managed to catch it and bring it back in
Knowing, as I do, the Baptist minister of Haworth, I would not dare get this wrong! (Not that I know every Baptist minister everywhere, depsite what some folk think)