{"id":25133,"date":"2011-03-17T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T09:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_flaws_in_japans_leadership_deepen_sense_of_crisis\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T09:07:02","slug":"ny_times_flaws_in_japans_leadership_deepen_sense_of_crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25133","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) Flaws in Japan\u2019s Leadership Deepen Sense of Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left-leaning news media outlets were long skeptical of nuclear power and its backers, and the mutual mistrust led power companies and their regulators to tightly control the flow of information about nuclear operations so as not to inflame a broad spectrum of opponents that include pacifists and environmentalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a Catch-22,\u201d\u009d said Kuni Yogo, a former nuclear power planner at Japan\u2019s Science and Technology Agency.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the government and Tokyo Electric Power, or Tepco, the operator of the troubled nuclear plant, \u201ctry to disclose only what they think is necessary, while the media, which has an antinuclear tendency, acts hysterically, which leads the government and Tepco to not offer more information.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/17\/world\/asia\/17tokyo.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-leaning news media outlets were long skeptical of nuclear power and its backers, and the mutual mistrust led power companies and their regulators to tightly control the flow of information about nuclear operations so as not to inflame a broad<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25133\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,589,149,337,89,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-japan","category-media","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}