Comments on: Environmental Illnesses Haunt Some Who Covered 9/11 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/06/environmental-illnesses-haunt-some-who-covered-911/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Fr.Stephen Petrovich http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/06/environmental-illnesses-haunt-some-who-covered-911/#comment-12156 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/06/environmental-illnesses-haunt-some-who-covered-911/#comment-12156 WEneed all reporters to tell and write about their illness from WTC 911. By doing so you are not only helping your self you are also helping us Responders who have no way of telling our story PLEASE! CONTINUE TELLING YOUR STORIES.maybe this will help us get the goverment moving in helping us and stop cutting funding for us who are dieing from 911 wtc. WEneed all reporters to tell and write about their illness from WTC 911.
By doing so you are not only helping your self you are also helping us Responders who have no way of telling our story PLEASE! CONTINUE TELLING YOUR STORIES.maybe this will help us get the goverment moving in helping us and stop cutting funding for us who are dieing from 911 wtc.

]]> by: David Scott http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/06/environmental-illnesses-haunt-some-who-covered-911/#comment-12145 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:03:43 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/06/environmental-illnesses-haunt-some-who-covered-911/#comment-12145 Louisiana has its share of toxic areas as well. While covering Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, I found myself in chest deep water (in waders with my camera in a waterproof container) that was made up of all sorts of petroleum chemicals, sewage and more. I have not suffered any ill effects but often wonder what will crop up in the next twenty years! I ruined a Nikon D1X and two prime lenses during the assignment, and that camera is one you could drive nails with! Louisiana has its share of toxic areas as well. While covering Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, I found myself in chest deep water (in waders with my camera in a waterproof container) that was made up of all sorts of petroleum chemicals, sewage and more. I have not suffered any ill effects but often wonder what will crop up in the next twenty years!

I ruined a Nikon D1X and two prime lenses during the assignment, and that camera is one you could drive nails with!

]]> by: Cord;ey Coit http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/06/environmental-illnesses-haunt-some-who-covered-911/#comment-12116 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:15:27 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/06/environmental-illnesses-haunt-some-who-covered-911/#comment-12116 This is part of nasty underside of photography and journalism in general. We work in toxic enviroments. Here in Colorado we have the deadly mix of mining chemicals, Radium , thorium, uranium, lead Copper,zinc, Moly, cadmium, mercury and more. On the battlefield there are toxic gases and chemical agents as well as uranium, wounds and stress. Where is the medical coverage? A simple riot can mean exposure to a vast array of unknown chemical agents and with the new weopens more kinds of radiation than one ought be near. Time to renegotiate contracts. This is part of nasty underside of photography and journalism in general. We work in toxic enviroments. Here in Colorado we have the deadly mix of mining chemicals, Radium , thorium, uranium, lead Copper,zinc, Moly, cadmium, mercury and more. On the battlefield there are toxic gases and chemical agents as well as uranium, wounds and stress. Where is the medical coverage? A simple riot can mean exposure to a vast array of unknown chemical agents and with the new weopens more kinds of radiation than one ought be near. Time to renegotiate contracts.

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