Calamities

Kaye's meltdown 'denier' called out

Ron Kaye's new organ for his activist brand of politics and news, OurLA.org, ran a long piece yesterday claiming to debunk the "meltdown myth" regarding the 1959 nuclear reactor incident in the hills above Chatsworth. The story was by a woman who is well known in the long history of the incident -- EnviroReporter.com's Michael Collins calls her a "meltdown denier." He's been breaking stories about the incident for years and posts in response:

We came across a jaw-dropping article on ex-Los Angeles Daily News Editor Ron Kaye’s “OurLA.org” that was, to say the least, unexpected....

Besides breaking every journalism rule in the book, the piece cobbles together a series of amateurish gibberish trying to dispel the notion that there was a meltdown on The Hill. The “Special Report” not only doesn’t sell the meltdown denier hogwash, it ends up being laughable even as it mischaracterizes this tragic event in 1959.

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If old pro’s like Ron Kaye can sign off on rubbish like this, then “citizen journalism” has hit a new low.

More over there.


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