nuclear power is (not) interesting

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1. Basti
   September 5th, 2009 at 21:56
   

   Their quality is declining. A few days ago they had a report on that air strike in Afghanistan, without mentioning the fact that it was in Afghanistan, at least on the front page.

   Sure, the content section mentioned “Kundus”, but you would expect them to tell you about an attack of that political weight in the headline or the sub-header, especially for the top news item.

   
   
2. Franz
   September 7th, 2009 at 03:40
   

   Did these two items really appear that close to each other? I had the second one in mind as I read the first one, but didn’t see them that close. Wonderful contradiction nevertheless.

   Interestingly enough there was no word of the demonstrations in the evening news. Drinking alcohole in Ukraine (!) seemed more important.

   
   
3. E.
   September 7th, 2009 at 10:40
   

   Yep, it was like that – first the interview was posted, and a few hours later the demonstration article, just above the other one.

   I just removed the two or three links under the demonstration article to avoid a huge screenshot.

   
   
4. Joe
   September 14th, 2009 at 10:33
   

   People tend to overreact on thing like that:

   Some people like ganging up, drawing slogans on huge pieces of cloth and repeating the same phrases aloud over and over again. May there be 50k of them. So, for them apparently the subject of atomic power is quite important – or at least important enough to rally.

   If now a survey tells us that the really same subject of atomic power does not bother the majority of electors, then there are only few options:

   1) The survey wasn’t done properly, meaning too few and/or wrong chosen people were asked the possibly wrong questions. That implies the polltaker doesn’t know his or her job to well.
   In that case, tageschau.de did a bad job in posting both massages without confirming them.

   2) The demonstrators do not represent a weightily group of voters. Meaning their rally only beeing a meeting of people habitual demonstrating on the same subjects without beeing backed up by the public. Like meetings of other minoritys, they show strenght in numbers only on few occasions by courtesy of activation each and every member of the movement without really having aforesaid strenght.
   In that case, there is nothing wrong about the way, both massages are presented on tageschau.de

   I tend to belief in option number 2 – altough i have to admit that polltakers have made mistakes concerning elections before.

   
   
5. E.
   September 14th, 2009 at 10:47
   

   Steinmeier quoted a survey yesterday – and I think I have seen this poll around a week ago – that around 69% of the German population oppose nuclear energy. I think it is important for many voters.

   As we saw yesterday, nuclear power was a topic, but not family politics or education. It is not that important for me, I have to admit – but only because of the fact that the “people” more or less agree. So I will rather focus on subjects which the majority of people don’t understand (read: don’t have my opinion *g*).

   
   
6. Joe
   September 14th, 2009 at 12:00
   

   Actually, i made a mistake:

   The article on tagesschau.de about nuclear power (right – that’s the correct expression) referred only to an interview and therewith in no way to any poll.
   The opinion of Mr. Neugebauer may be true or false – it’s just a quote and therefore concerning stringent information given to the people without contrast to any news about rallying nuclear power objectors.

   
   

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