[Fill in alarmist and armageddonist factoid here]

[Cilpot]

Greenpeace's fill-in-the-blank public relations meltdown

Before President Bush touched down in Pennsylvania Wednesday to promote his nuclear energy policy, the environmental group Greenpeace was mobilizing.

"This volatile and dangerous source of energy" is no answer to the country's energy needs, shouted a Greenpeace fact sheet decrying the "threat" posed by the Limerick reactors Bush visited.

But a factoid or two later, the Greenpeace authors were stumped while searching for the ideal menacing metaphor.

We present it here exactly as it was written, capital letters and all: " In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE] ."

Had Greenpeace been hacked by a nuke-loving Bush fan? Or was this proof of Greenpeace fear-mongering?

The aghast Greenpeace spokesman who issued the memo, Steve Smith, said a colleague was making a joke by inserting the language in a draft that was then mistakenly released.

"Given the seriousness of the issue at hand, I don't even think it's funny," Smith said.

The final version did not mention Armageddon. It just warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.

Whoops!

So what do you think? Fear mongering or honest mistake? Either way its a PR disaster for the organization.

EDIT: Soruce: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/14691089.htm

 

[Urederra]

Old news.

There is a thread about that piece of news already. As a matter of fact, it is pretty much dead right now.

EDIT: Here is the thread

 

[CurtSibling]

I never trusted Green Peace.

If you do enough research upon them, you will see they are crooks of the highest level.

It is said they work with oil companies to engineer fear campaigns and reactions to disasters...

...With a view to milking the public blind...!

Eco-warriors?

More like cunning suits!

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[Cilpot]

Old news.

There is a thread about that piece of news already. As a matter of fact, it is pretty much dead right now.

Argh.. Here I start a thread for the first time in ages and I get mucked!

 

[Urederra]

well, it could have been worse.

 

[Xenocrates]

It's news to me. I must have slept through the last thread.