My personal favorites of the day are "Radiation Over U.S. is Harmless, Officials Say" from the NY Times. It goes on to describe in great detail how there is a "radioactive plume" over the U.S. and it uses the word "plume" no less than 8 times in the entire article, I counted.
Another one featured from CNET the other day was "Where are the robots in Japan's nuclear crisis?" It then goes on with virtually no facts whatsoever but a perceived logical argument that because Japan is a modern high-tech country robots should be handling this crisis and not people. However, it also gives a reason why robots are impossible at the moment.
Rampant throughout the States right now is this "people are wearing masks to avoid radiation" theory. It's also untrue. People wear masks when they get sick. There's a lot of people in Japan. And those people don't like to be coughed, sneezed, etc. on. Therefore, you wear a mask. The only thing this is revealing is that there is bad case of colds or hay fever in Japan at the moment.
And then finally, my all-time favorite is Fox News' latest mistake. They released this map the other day, clearing pointing out a nuclear reactor in the middle of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, titled the Shibuya Eggman. The best part of this: That's a concert hall. Even better? If you go to the Eggman's website, it says, "Shibuya Eggman has no nuclear plant. Our electricity's powered only by music."I'd also like to point out that Sendai is definitely in northern, not Southern Japan.
EDIT:
There is a Sendai in Southern Japan, but the one we've been referencing has been in the north.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/asia/22plume.html?_r=1
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20044970-1.html
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