Word: nuclear
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MAINSTREAM VALUES: this is an expression used to conjure nostalgic images of the nuclear family and a dog living in a house with a white picket fence down the street from the Cleavers and the Nelsons. These are also the values of the wealthy, protestant, heterosexual white males who are fighting to preserve cultural hegemony in the United States. "Mainstream values" are antithetical to the Equal Rights Amendment, affirmative action, reproductive rights, civil liberties, and civil rights for gays, lesbians and bisexuals. This is CULTURAL OPPRESSION...
...while focusing on Christmascommercialization, the group will also emphasizesuch issues as nuclear disarmament and globalpeace, Fucella said...
...CEOs of the big media corporations are almost all white, male, conservative and Republican. Most of the corporations are members of the Fortune 500, and many invest in banking, nuclear power, defense or energy industries. Bagdikian writes that it is "normal for all large businesses to make serious efforts to influence the news, to avoid embarassing publicity and to maximize sympathetic public opinion and governmental policies. Now they own most of the news media that they wish to influence...
...aired a documentary last year called "Nuclear Power: In France It Works." A month later two accidents in French nuclear power plants injured seven workers and polls showed that one out of three French citizens were against nuclear power. Although the accidents were covered in the American press, NBC News didn't mention the accidents. The left-wing media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting pointed out that since 1986, NBC has been owned by General Electric, the second largest nuclear power producer in the U.S. G.E. didn't write the documentary, or control how the French accidents were covered...
...Would you halt all efforts to develop nuclear weapons...