Are some of those who write for The New York Times utterly unaware of the rest of the world — including the United States?
Take the article last month, "Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant" (April 21, 2011). "Given the fierce insularity of Japan's nuclear industry," the article by Norimitsu Onishi and Ken Belson triumphantly began, "it was perhaps fitting that an outsider exposed the most serious safety coverup in the history of Japanese nuclear power."
Onishi and Belson went on to detail how the regulators "colluded" with the regulated not to reveal the possible flaw pointed out by "an outsider," a Japanese-American inspector working for General Electric — without mentioning that GE was the designer of the troubled nuclear reactors. For that matter, they did not refer to the March 15 ABC News article, "Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist to Quit in Protest." The protest and resignation happened 35 years ago.