CNN Doubles Down on Pro-Nuclear Bias

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Nuclear Power - Economics, Design, & Industry

Date posted: 07/13/14

Biased piece from FAIR, reviewed the CNN-aired the pro-nuclear power film, the Pandora Promise on November 7, 2013. They claim that the film was little more than propaganda (FAIR Action Alert, 10,25,13), booking virtually no dissent from the views of the film 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. Moderated by CNN Anderson Cooper, the panel was stacked three to one in favor of the film premise. Dale Bryk of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the lone anti-nuclear voice, was outnumbered by the film director, Robert Stone, climate scientist James Hansen and former nuclear plant operator Michael Friedlander. Make up your mind where the bias lie...