2010-03-14- Reporter: Vittori Zucconi
- Date: 2010-03-14
- Score: 6
- Link to Article: http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2011/03/14/news/giappone_zucconi-13575744
- Reporting faults and errors: Casual racism
- Description: Headline reads "L'abitudine al dolore è dentro il destino", or "the habit of pain is in the destiny". Article is a collection of baseless opinions written around cultural stereotypes.
- JPquake Editor: AHM
2010-03-192011-03-20- Reporter: GIAMPAOLO VISETTI
- Date: 2010-03-20
- Score: 11
- Link to Article: http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2011/03/20/news/tokyo_capitale_in_agonia-13852633/
- Reporting faults and errors: Completely bogus story, nearly every word of which is false, written specifically to create the impression that Tokyo is in chaos and facing nuclear apocalypse. Simple words like "lie" or "bias" cannot accurately describe this.
- Description: Portrays Tokyo as "a capital in agony" ("una capitale in agonia"), which 4 million people are said to have left to escape the "atomic cloud" ("nube atomica"). Says that there is now a "true contamination alarm" ("vero allarme-contaminazione") because the government "has admitted" ("ha ammesso") that there are traces of radioactive iodine in water. While it does go on to say that the levels are under legal limits and harmless, it qualifies this statement with the word "officially" ("ufficialmente"). Throughout the article, the author appears to make skillful use of loaded words so as to imply more than it actually says. Details such as the fact that people wear masks (as they always do in Japan because of colds or pollen allergies) are used to suggest that people are scared of radiation. It says that restaurants are empty because of the fear of "contaminated foods" ("alimenti contaminati").
"The population of the metropolitan area, over 35 million people, notes that the life of one of the most important capitals of the world has already changed beyond recognition. The question is not when most will return to Tokyo to everyday business and lost, but if it will be possible. The collapse of the traffic and crowds on the street is impressive." " Skyscrapers with thousands of offices are empty"
" Syndrome contaminated food left deserted restaurants and tenth who had devoted so far to hoard food. In Ginza, the shopping street, some street vendors are auctioned iodine tablets on the sidewalk, at exorbitant prices, as if they were drug dealers. To steal a single genre: the newspapers that information on the timing of the blackout. "
"The packaged foods, as long as products until 11 March, are found and their price has gone up seven times" The value of real estate in Tokyo is said to have fallen by 30%.
"Between Friday and Monday to escape from multinational companies, embassies, banks and administrative centers of industry, has caused panic among those who have no safe place to hide." "Anger against the goverment" ("rabbia contro il governo") is said to be rising. This last statement is supported by a quote from a single person, while other pieces of "information" are either unsourced or vaguely attributed. The whole article is basically a piece of apocalyptic fiction.
"The agony of Tokyo and the specter of a nuclear explosion, the sum is submerged by the tsunami catastrophe in the prefectures. The capital is under siege by thousands of eco-evacuated and tens of thousands of homeless people fled from cold, hunger and terror." - JPquake Editor: AHM
2010-03-21- Reporter: None (mainly editors)
- Date: 2010-03-21
- Score: 8
- Link to Article: http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2011/03/19/foto/saitama_lo_stadio-rifugio_dei_contaminati-13834702/?ref=HRER1-1
http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2011/03/20/news/palasport_tokyo_paura_test-13852390/?ref=HRER1-1 - Reporting faults and errors: Misleading headline
- Description: Today, the front page of the online version of the paper has a link called "The Contaminated" ("I contaminati"). Yesterday (20th), the same link was called "Among the contaminated" ("Tra i contaminati.") However, the article it links to is a report from Adachi Ward, Tokyo describing the conditions of refugees from villages around Iwaki (misspelt Ivaki), forty km away from the power plant. These are said to be worrying about possible contamination and complaining that they are not being tested for it because their homes were outside the exclusion zone. While the report on the stressful situation in which these people are may be true, the link title clearly misrepresents the piece by giving the impression that the refugees are surely contaminated. Moreover, a gallery of photos that is posted next to the piece is entitled "Photos from Saitama, the stadium that serves as refuge for the contaminated" ("Foto Saitama, lo stadio-rifugio dei contaminati"). This is another group of people, who are evacuees from the exclusion zone and whose pictures have appeared on other websites, always captioned "evacuees", not "contaminated people". They should not be referred to as "contaminated" as there is no evidence that they are such. All this suggests that there is an editorial intention to give the impression that evacuees and refugees are in fact all contaminated by radiation.
- JPquake Editor: AHM
2010-03-22- Reporter: None (mainly editors)
- Date: 2010-03-22
- Score: 7
- Link to Article: http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2011/03/22/news/giappone_22_marzo-13933612/?ref=HREC1-3
- Reporting faults and errors: Misleading headline
- Description: The usual, catastrofism and scaremongering.
The first (on line) page title is :"Giappone, sale la radioattività a Fukushima
Due scosse oltre i 6 gradi. 'Nube attesa in Italia' "
"Japan, radioactivity increasing in Fukushima, new quakes of over 6 degrees.(radioactive) Cloud expected over Italy".
Opening the article will give you some more equilibrate reporting, but even then it is not a good read. There are mentions of "new and high levels of radioactive elements in 47 prefectures, including Tokio".
Then there is a mention of the notorious "cloud" that seems to be flying over Iceland and is expected over France and Italy tomorrow, but it seems to be balically unmeasurable since it should be "at least 10 thousend times smaller than the natural background". - JPquake Editor: AHM
2010-03-30- Reporter: Pietro del Re
- Date: 2010-03-30
- Score: 8
- Link to Article: http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2011/03/31/news/samurai_fukushima-14300560/?ref=HREC1-1
- Reporting faults and errors: Factual errors; sensationalist claims
- Description: A variety of mistakes, from the function of the interview subject (P. Del Re assumes Yokota is a volunteer, but in fact is an Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency's officer) to the amount of assumed amount of radiation... also the usual "worse than Chernobyl" claim
- JPquake Editor: AHM
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