North Korea Explodes Nuclear Bomb

Dallas Blog accompanies the story of an underground nuclear test with a fear-inspiring photograph of an aboveground nuclear explosion. It makes Dallas Blog look amateurish... or irresponsible regarding truth and accuracy.

A little search shows the stock photograph was also used by "Emergency Preparedness and Survival Guide", a survivalist's guide to ... well, survival. Maybe next, Dallas Blog can cut-and-paste the rest of the helpful advice in the book:

• Canning your meats and vegetables
• Emergency power for $950
• How do you live without electricity?
• Long-term food storage
• Medical kits for self-reliant families
• Seven mistakes of food storage
• What to do when there's no doctor
  ... and my favorite ...
• Sensible gun choices after September 11

Dallas Blog presented this story as a straight news piece. I favor truth and accuracy in news. Giving readers the impression that North Korea detonated an atmospheric hydrogen bomb is, in effect, a lie. If I cannot trust the accuracy of the photo that Dallas Blog led with, why should I trust the accuracy of the text? The truth or falsehood of news stories regarding something as potentially cataclysmic as nuclear war matters, whether Dallas Blog cares about truth or not.