links for 2008-05-24

• USGS Release: Disaster Earthquake Scenario Unveiled for Southern California (5/22/2008 10:00:00 AM)
  Scientists today unveiled a hypothetical Scenario describing how a magnitude 7.8 Southern California earthquake -similar to the recent earthquake in China- would impact the region, causing loss of lives and massive damage to infrastructure, including crit
  (tags: earthquake disaster simulation uh+oh los+angeles california)
• Fear and Loathing in Prime Time: Immigration Myths and Cable News
  There are many problems facing the United States today: a faltering economy, a health-care crisis, and the continuing war in Iraq, to name a few. But viewers of some of the most prominent cable news programs are presented a different reality, one in which
  (tags: myths america toread journalism media politics immigration conservatives disinformation Facts Mexico Spanish study)

~ by SAP on 24 May 2008.