[alisasny]

That is pretty sad. And there is our wonderful media exploiting this poor woman and humoring her enough to let her rant in such a manner.

[Cathy]

Not to mention the fact that the media reported an unconfirmed report that the miners were all alive. The race to be the first network to report the story made this worse.

[Howlin]

It was hard to say who was exploiting who.

[lowbuck]

"And there is our wonderful media exploiting this poor woman. . . " No kidding, only I have other adjatives than "wonderful".

I was up early this morning (Munich) and caught CNN just as they broke the story of the survivors. The guy and reporter babe on the scene just babbled on and on. It was so obvious that they couldn't understand the religious beliefs and joy of these simple folks and their efforts to "dance" around the faith issue was enough to make one puke.

Later I returned home just in time to catch the breaking news about the one survivor and twelve deaths. You could see the CNN team visibly relax and immediately go into the "blame mode". They beat the drum about the anger, they managed to get in the religious angle that despite their prayers there was no miracle. On and on.

I try to give up on CNN and catch the BBC, but, they are just as bad. Guess I will have to get a dish and find some other intelligent English language channel. Like Nick at Night, yes that's the ticket!