| Sumario: | This article focuses on the news coverage of the video display terminal (VDT) health and safety controversy by two U.S. weeklies, as of January 1981. Long-term exposure to microwave radiation from video-display terminals has allegedly been suspected as a cause of premature cataracts in writers and editors who work long hours in front of television-like devices used in writing and editing copy. The linkage, however, allegedly remains much in doubt. The June 30, 1980, issue of the periodical, Business Week contained an investigation of the subject. Referring to a completed study conducted in newsrooms and other offices in the San Francisco, California area, the two-page article stated that the surveys almost debunked the radiation myth, but that they have uncovered other health dangers that have the potential to cause long-term injury to regular VDT users.
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