Carefully watch the media coverage, even despite their unwillingness to follow "Yellow Journalism"

  After the revelation of radiation leakage from the nuclear reactors, crippled by the tsunami hits, at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electronic Power Co., the more attention of media and people were shifting to radioactive contamination of agricultural products produced and harvested in the peripheral areas from the troubled plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Northeastern Japan, as well as ones to human health.

  Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said on March 21st the government had confirmed the fact spinach and milk found to have been contaminated with radiation, stressing the intake will do very little damage to the human body. The World Health Organization on the same day also announced the radiated food was safe enough to eat and drink at that moment.

  However, the two news media reported the story with precisely opposite interpretation. AFP wrote as the WTO’s earlier statement put it.

(http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110321/hl_afp/japanquakeaccidentnuclearfoodwho_20110321154307)

Meanwhile, Reuters’ reported it from extremely negative perspectives, quoting the WTO’s spokesman Peter Cordingley’s comments in a phone interview.

(http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72K4B520110321)

  I asked the organization which was right or wrong by email. The reply said the WTO considered the radiation contaminated food had no influence on the human body in the short-term future in reference with reference to the current information, attaching a URL at CNN’s website.

(http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72K4B520110321)

This teaches you the fact there is no exception as many say: we need to double-check the media coverage. The more complex, confused and shocking situation was caused by the biggest earthquakes and tsunamis in history that hit as hard across Japan as led to the 20,000 or above missing or dead and paralyzed its capital function and business center in the metropolitan Tokyo business district, the more cautious you have to become about how the media cover stories on these events.