{"id":7292,"date":"2022-10-11T22:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T05:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2022-10-12T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:42:05","slug":"best-chernobyl-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7292","title":{"rendered":"Best Chernobyl Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is probably one of the best videos covering the work that was done by scientists after Chernobyl was first sealed up &#8211; but the details of what happened were still unknown. Nova was by far my favorite tv show when I was a kid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice how different reporting was done just 30 years ago. It was just fact reporting from the people who were there &#8211; without dozens of talking head experts editorializing and telling you how to fell about it. Just compare this to 99.9% of &#8216;documentaries&#8217; today <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9BUrNe3Vhtk\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9BUrNe3Vhtk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that can be made by anyone and are basically thinly veiled propaganda pieces where the creators opinions aren&#8217;t even veiled<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/NOVA.S18E14.Suicide.Mission.to.Chernobyl.1991.VHSRip.AAC2.0.x264Astro\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>When looking up facts and information about Chernobyl, it&#8217;s surprising how soft details are to find on the internet these days. I remember lots of much more graphic and revealing stories, videos, and facts in 90&#8217;s era web articles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good example is this NOVA documentary about the scientists that went in to find out what happened. Now you&#8217;re hard pressed to find information like this. Most of the time details about radiation rates and actual events are glossed over without the details that used to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another great site is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/extreme4\/kiddofspeed\/chapter1.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/extreme4\/kiddofspeed\/chapter1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elena from Angelfire<\/a>. She did some of the very first civilian infiltrations and documentations of the Chernobyl zone and still has a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOQ4AW6HdPg1UegsmY85HpA\/videos?view=0&amp;sort=da&amp;flow=grid\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOQ4AW6HdPg1UegsmY85HpA\/videos?view=0&amp;sort=da&amp;flow=grid\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably one of the best videos covering the work that was done by scientists after Chernobyl was first sealed up &#8211; but the details of what happened were still unknown. Nova was by far my favorite tv show when I was a kid. Notice how different reporting was done just 30 years ago. It was just fact reporting from the people who were there &#8211; without dozens of talking head experts editorializing and telling you how to fell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7292\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1TC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7311,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/7311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}