{"id":1850934,"date":"2023-02-17T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850934"},"modified":"2023-02-17T11:05:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:05:27","slug":"ohio-chemical-fallout-fears-overblown-by-right-wing-commentators-new-york-times-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-chemical-fallout-fears-overblown-by-right-wing-commentators-new-york-times-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Chemical Fallout Fears Overblown By \u2018Right-Wing Commentators,\u2019 New York Times Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fohio-chemical-fallout-fears-overblown-by-right-wing-commentators-new-york-times-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> Concerns about possible hazardous side effects of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/ohio-train-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">train derailment<\/a>\u00a0In East Palestine, Ohio, the overblown by are \u201cright-wing commentators\u201d They are looking to \u201csow distrust\u201d Government agencies<\/p>\n<p>All residents within one mile radius of the train derailment were evacuated by local and state authorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/evacuation-ordered-ohio-governor-warns-major-explosion-could-send-shrapnel-a-mile-from-derailed-train\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started<\/a> A controlled burning of industrial chemicals on the train helped to reduce the danger of an explosion. If this had happened, shrapnel could have been hurled throughout the small community. Five train cars released vinyl chloride (a carcinogen used in the production of PVC), as massive plumes visible across eastern Ohio, and western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple state and federal agencies maintained that water and air supplies were not being cut, despite their repeated assertions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/they-should-be-willing-to-drink-it-epa-says-water-is-safe-after-ohio-train-crash-j-d-vance-invites-him-to-take-a-sip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Not affected<\/a> Residents and first responders reported a lingering stench in the air, oily chemicals in local creeks and streams, sudden deaths in wildlife and livestock, and worrisome effects on their health such as headaches. Carter Andrews is part of a team with The Daily Wire. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cartertheepic\/status\/1626425447335469056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the ground<\/a> In East Palestine, he said \u201ceyes sting\u201d And his \u201chead is throbbing\u201d After spending some time in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Thompson, a reporter at The New York Times who covers \u201cmisinformation and disinformation,\u201d Accepted on a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/16\/technology\/ohio-train-derailment-chernobyl.html?smid=tw-nytimes&#038;smtyp=cur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article<\/a> Residents are concerned by the smells and dead wildlife. However, he said that few media outlets, especially conservative ones, have exaggerated the potential impact of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many commentators from across the political spectrum, the speculation has gone far beyond known facts,\u201d Thompson wrote. \u201cRight-wing commentators have been particularly critical, using the crisis to sow distrust about government agencies and suggest that the damage could be irreparable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson pointed out that some commentators had speculated that the catastrophe could indeed be. \u201cChernobyl 2.0\u201d Or could have been the outcome of a \u201cplanned attack.\u201d He also received statements from the EPA, and other agencies claiming air and water supplies were safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey warned, without evidence, that vital water reservoirs serving states downriver could be badly contaminated. And they suggested that the authorities, railroad companies and mainstream news media were purposefully obscuring the full toll of the crisis,\u201d He went on. \u201cThe EPA has said air quality has returned to safe levels. Residents have been allowed to return. A chemical odor lingers because people can smell the contaminants even when they are far below hazardous concentrations, according to the agency. Water testing found \u2018no indication of risk\u2019 to public water systems so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times article was published alongside several legacy media outlets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/three-legacy-media-outlets-have-spent-less-than-30-combined-minutes-covering-ohio-train-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minimal attention<\/a> to the subsequent derailment. The Media Research Center&#8217;s analysts analyzed all broadcast coverage between February 4th and February 14; conservative nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/bill-dagostino\/curtis-houck\/2023\/02\/14\/networks-abandoned-ohio-train-disaster-despite-continued-fallout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Concluded<\/a> CBS devoted only 9 minutes and 53 second of their total airtime to scandal while ABC had 9 minute and 31 seconds. NBC followed with 8 minutes 52 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than healthy skepticism, reporters approached statements by Norfolk Southern and the Ohio EPA, both of whom had a blatant incentive to downplay the seriousness of the situation, with slavish credulity,\u201d The Media Research Center&#8217;s analysts noted this. \u201cPerhaps this explains why they haven\u2019t gone back to the story: because they abandoned it too early before asking any meaningful questions. For the broadcast networks to revisit East Palestine now would be to admit that their prior abandonment of it was an error born out of laziness and a lack of curiosity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times claimed that concerns about the potentially hazardous effects from the train derailment\u00a0in East Palestine, Ohio, are overblown by \u201cright-wing commentators\u201d that seek to \u201csow distrust\u201d in government agencies. Local and state authorities previously evacuated all residents within one mile of the derailment and started a controlled burn of industrial chemicals present &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1850937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[14092,4856,5741,14552,4567,4333,18928,10170,4126,3859],"class_list":["post-1850934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-chemical","tag-claims","tag-commentators","tag-fallout","tag-fears","tag-ohio","tag-overblown","tag-right-wing","tag-times","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}