UNCOVERING RADIATION.
The article presents several U.S. stories about the radiation from video display terminals (VDT). Although the press has started acknowledging the VDT radiation story, the context remains uncovered. One of the stories is the introduction of PS/2 personal computer from IBM that are covered to reduce...
| Published in: | Columbia Journalism Review Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 6 - 8 |
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Columbia Journalism Review
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