Reply #1: "Sloppy reporting" is putting it mildly [View All]

[Art_from_Ark]

I've all but given up on finding real news in the American news media. I keep telling people here that the average level of American "journalism" is somewhere below the level of the average Japanese "sports newspaper" :puke:

On the positive side, NHK has been running a series this week about what tsunami/earthquake refugees need and want (and related information), college students and others have collaborated in creating a name/shelter database and posting it on the Internet to reunite families, and American donors alone have contributed over $120 million to the AMerican Red Cross's Japan Disaster Relief Fund.

From what I hear, medical care is still a problem. Some organizations are resorting to busing elderly people to unaffected areas in hopes of getting them medical attention there.

As for the economic impact, it's got to be big, but I don't think that anyone at this point really has a clue about how big it's going to be. Loss of livelihoods for farmers and fishermen, whole towns wiped out economically, damaged factories shut down (and I know the manager of one such factory), loss of electricity generating capacity, costs for starting up new power plants, the list goes on and on...