It's been a long time since a good meta-thread and I didn't want Nesov derailing this thread by talking about how news is inherently bad.
Ok, I'll do it. It is bad to post arbitrary news to LessWrong. Relevance to the specific concerns of LessWrong needs to be demonstrated, which it wasn't here.
An independent report shows Japan was much closer to nuclear disaster than previously reported.
“Prime Minister Kan had his minuses and he had his lapses,” Mr. Funabashi said, “but his decision to storm into Tepco and demand that it not give up saved Japan.”