How did CNN respond to activist calls for balance to its airing of pro-nuke Pandora's Promise? By compounding the bias with a post-show roundtable, Nuclear Power: The Fallout From Fear, that featured a panel just as slanted as its title.
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| NRDC's Dale Bryk provides the only voice of skepticism on CNN's nuclear roundtable following the network's airing of pro-nuke documentary Pandora's Promise. |
CNN aired the pro-nuclear power film Pandora's Promise on November 7. The film was little more than propaganda (FAIR Action Alert, 10/25/13),
brooking virtually no dissent from the views of the film's seven
principal "stars"--one-time anti-nuclear environmentalists who now say
the planet can only be saved from the ravages of fossil fuels by a
rapid, large-scale investment in new, supposedly fail-safe "fast
reactors."
In advance of the airing, FAIR and RootsAction presented CNN
with a petition signed by over 27,000 activists, demanding the news
network present a more balanced discussion of the issue.
How did CNN respond? By compounding the bias with a post-show roundtable, Nuclear Power: The Fallout From Fear, that featured a panel just as slanted as its title.
How did CNN respond? By compounding the bias with a post-show roundtable, Nuclear Power: The Fallout From Fear, that featured a panel just as slanted as its title.
