Arizona Nearly Blown Off the Map (If you believe the media)

Without a free and vibrant press, you wouldn’t be reading this. A free press is essential to the maintenance of freedom. But with freedom comes responsibility. Unfortunately, the press doesn’t always act responsibly. You can expect small minded provincialism from little newspapers nestled in isolated mountain towns; they try their best with the limited talent pool they can dig out of the caves. But I can’t help but expect better from the major market media.

Recently, the NPR affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, a station generally known for fair and balanced reporting, ran a story about the “emergency shutdown” of the Palo Verde nuclear generating station forty miles west of Phoenix. They ran the story and ran the story and ran the story.