2011-03-15
- Institution: Telegraph
- Reporter: Nick Allen
- Date: 2011-03-15
- Link to story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8382504/Japan-earthquake-panic-in-Tokyo-as-radiation-spreads.html
- Score: 7
- Reporting faults and errors: Alarmist title (Japan earthquake: panic in Tokyo as radiation spreads) plus skipping the fact-check process to accurately report from Tokyo where he just flew in from LA.
- Description: Writes <Edano said: “It is likely that the level of
radiation increased sharply due to a fire at Unit 4."> but Unit 4 was under inspection before March 11th so no fuel in the reactor, only the spent fuel pool was in question so how would the radiation level increase in the first place? He chose to use "storage pond" instead of pool, sounds like Google translation. Despite the title, no actual descriptive report of the capital city itself, more like memorandum in bullet points.
- JP Editor: HF
- Institution: Telegraph
- Reporter: Nick Allen
- Date: 2011-03-16
- Link to story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8385978/Japan-earthquake-the-exodus-of-Tokyo.html
- Score: 7
- Reporting faults and errors: Title: Japan earthquake: the exodus of Tokyo with a photo of a station platform which is quite a normal sight as people do wait in queues before they board bullet trains.
- Description: Writes "At the city's Narita Airport a queue for departures snaked for 200 yards with
people lining up three abreast.
" but this is again, nothing significant as we Japanese experience this on every holiday and vacation season. Taking a quote (I heard a reactor's exploded) from British student at Narita, Mr. Allen did not even correct in the article as it cannot explode after automatic shutdown, the vapor is nowhere near the reactor explosion.
- JP Editor: HF
Tsunami victims stoic as compatriots in meltdown
NINE days after the tsunami, the remarkable truth is this. The people who have lost everything are coping far better than the people who have lost absolutely nothing. [A description of the successful tsunami evacuation plans follows.] Japanese society, like its earthquake-proof skyscrapers, seems built to withstand the most severe tremors. Order and duty run deep; the good of the community outweighs the needs of the individual.
Yet in the nine-tenths of the country that suffered no damage at all, that strength appears to have gone missing. Japan as a whole is suffering a nervous breakdown. [Flabbergastingly wrong] In towns nowhere near the tsunami zone, normal life has effectively stopped, with offices and shops closed, pavements empty and factory production lines silent. The only cars on the streets are queuing for petrol.
Through much of Tokyo and northern Japan, food and fuel distribution systems have collapsed. [Incorrect] In the few shops still open, there is nothing to be had. [Completely incorrect] The trains, Japan's central nervous system, are running fitfully, if at all. [Incorrect] Power cuts keep being threatened, though few seem to have materialised.
In the capital, 400 kilometres from the epicentre of the earthquake and untouched by the tsunami, only seven people died.
But the city is running at quarter-steam, with thousands of Japanese and foreigners fleeing, the usual food and fuel shortages, entire companies packing up shop and some metro lines reduced to as little as hourly. [An exaggeration that gives a completely inaccurate picture of Tokyo]
Objectively, the impact should not have been so great.
2011-03-31
- Institution: Telegraph, The
- Reporter: Danielle Demetriou
- Date: 2011-03-31
- Link to story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8419808/Japan-nuclear-crisis-Fukushima-50-expect-to-die.html
- Score: 10
- Reporting faults and errors: Eyecatching headline "Japan nuclear crisis: Fukushima 50 'expect to die' but nothing close mentioned in the article itself.
- Description: From the start, Ms. Demetriou got it all wrong: "the group of around 300 technicians,
soldiers and firemen who work in shifts of 50" which proves that she does not even attend TEPCO's daily press conference in Tokyo. Pure imagination. Then, she goes on to say: "continuing its struggle to regain control over crucial
cooling systems at four damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
plant." Long before March 11th, No. 4 reactor was going under check-ups so no fuel rod in the reactor, hence, no damage. If she checked TEPCO's company website, as they upload English translation of the conference everyday, she could have avoided this utter embarrassment.
- Oh, what about the 'expect to die' quote come from? Watching FOX news and copied it without checking the original Japanese comment?
- JP Editor: HF
2011-04-21
- Institution: Telegraph, The
- Reporter: Julian Ryall and Malcolm Moore
- Date: 2011-04-21
- Link to story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/8466207/Rebuilding-Japan-Special-scorn-for-flyjin-foreigners-who-fled-country.html
- Score: 7
- Reporting faults and errors: "In addition, almost all Chinese and Korean residents in Japan have now left
the country, despite no advice to do so from their home governments.
" is an outrageous claim to state.
- Description: Photo caption of the article may have been the original from EPA (photo agency) showing Philippine nationals while journalists repeat in the article about almost all Chinese and Koreans left Japan without any proof. Hopefully big Korean community, and bigger Chinese community throughout Japan would protest to this inaccurate, speculative article. : Also, Ujie is not a town, is an area within Ishioka City in Ibaraki
Term flyjin is not even used commonly by local Japanese as they don't even know what that means.
- JP Editor: HF
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