Nuclear accident in the Atlantic - Reuters don't mention

COMMENT PUBLISHED ON REUTERS' HOMEPAGE:

Dear Editors at Reuters

It is deeply disappointing to find that you are one of the very few international news sources that do not find it important to inform the world that a British and French nuclear-equipped submarine collided in the Atlantic Ocean on February 3 or 4, 2009. Do you find that serious accidents - as this one seems to have been - involving nuclear weapons and, potentially, threatening millions of innocent people's lives, just irrelevant? Less important than a British singer who has given birth to a boy or some sport event?

Would you not have carried this dramatic story if it had involved a Russian og Chinese nuclear submarine? If you cover regularly the threat allegedly associated with non-nuclear Iran or, at the time Saddams Iraq, is it your professional, journalistic judgement that Christian/NATO nuclear weapons do not represent a threat to the world, too?

I'd appreciate - and surely many other around the world - your explanation of editorial priorities in this case. Thank you!

SIncerely

Jan Oberg, dr.hc
Co-founder and director of the Transnational Foundation in Sweden

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So much for Reuters! I can tell you that e.g. Al-Jazeera, the Danish Broadcasting and the Japan Times did not carry a word on their frontpages about this event up to 6 hours after CNN had put it as #1 on its homepage.
Should Reuters' editors respond to my letter, I will post it here.

Jan



JO # 1242