Posted on 01/04/2006 7:19:32 AM PST by bessay
If I were a family member, the first person I would punch is Anderson Cooper (aka Gloria Vanderbilt's son). That smarmy, limp-wristed dork needs to get the crap beat out of him.
Chicago has two
major papers, the Tribune
also the Sun Times.
Traditionally,
the Trib is good, the 'Times' bad.
They both lived up to
their reputations.
The Tribune's cover today
had the real story.
The Sun Times' cover
went out with no correction.
My Mom's a senior
and reads the Sun Times.
She went to breakfast thinking
the miners were safe . . .
I bought a copy of USA Today and couldn't believe the story. We caught them this time, but this makes you wonder what else they get wrong.
However, on this, they get slack. Breaking news is always the most unreliable.
As I remember Kirk Douglas was telling an older fellow about having a rattlesnake in the draw and how you could control the story by keeping people in suspense as to its whereabouts. But you knew where the snake was and controlled the situation.
Something along those lines as I remember from that movie 50 years ago. - Tom
Any doubts about that should have been dispelled when they hired that @sshole Geraldo Rivera Jerry Rivers. If the Katrina story had run for one more day, I would have expected Fox to run a couple of stories suggesting that Natalee Holloway had been sighted inside the Superdome.
While it is a tragedy that 12 miners died, it is also a miracle that one survived. With that out of the way, now is the time to bombard the editorials of all MSM outlets with how if they got all this wrong, perhaps they also got Iraq wrong, Bush wrong, The NSA wrong, Valerie Plame wrong, etc.
Yup. But that (unfortunately?) means that they also need to have a media-savvy operation to ensure that the official story can reliably get out.
And the media -- well, what can one really say about a pack of dung beetles?
There are poliitcal factors to ponder here:
1. As I understand it, Rockefeller is heavilly invested in coal. Is he a competitor of the Hatfields? Or is he invested in this mine?
2. Will the rats seek to regulate the 'free press' more from this?
3. Will the rats seek to increase regulations from this?
4. Will the rats seek to vilify 'big business' from this?
Between this and Abramoff, I think we are in danger of losing initiative again. The GOP never seems to learn how to take initiative, even when Sandy the Berglar destroys original intel docs.
It is a sad day when we have to hope that Byrd and Rockefeller are the best hope to block rat initiative.
In SoCal we had heard on the radio around 9PM that the other 12 miners were found alive. Watching the news about 11:15PM, the first miner brought out was taken away in the ambulance, unconscious and in critical condition. I remarked to my husband 'maybe they sent him out first because he was in the worst condition'. Didn't sleep well and awakened to find the rest were dead. Very sad---had tears in my eyes when they were reported alive. Tears in my eyes now, too.
"While it is a tragedy that 12 miners died, it is also a miracle that one survived."
I agree. Thank God for that! At the same time, is it true that a 2 and half hour delay also occurred on the initial call for help? That could well have made all the difference, if one survived. If one other man was alive within two hours, we are talking about a major scandal.
I still can't conceive of a THREE HOUR lapse in time till the error was discovered. This is unacceptable and not professional.
What ever happened to the number one rule in reporting?
"Check your sources"
Who bothered to check with the Command Post?
sw
"paramedics why and was told that they thought that the miners were in such good shape that they weren't needed."
PARAMEDICS said that? Then they lied, or were stupid, or were lied to by those even closer to the situation.
So maybe this isn't ultimately the media's fault? However, in any case they should've verified.
This is the problem w/modern communication. Media is slap-happy about "being 1st" to report something - anything. Even if it's wrong. They "shoot 1st" and sort it out later.
Worse, w/modern technology, the falsehoods are spread fast, all over the country and the world, in an instant, and now millions believe what they were 1st told - by those supposed to know what's going on.
(Even worse, they then clamor to "do something" to fix a problem [i.e., more government rules and shackles] which seems very important because of its known immediacy even if it's happening 5000 mi away.)
The big egos of media whores make them want to make news....not report it.
The contagion has spread into most main stream media markets.
Only on the internet is there sufficient skepticism to rat out the bull.
Time to clean house and hire recent college grads or military vets.
If one was alive it means the others did not pass away to much earlier. It means if you wait for the Feds to rescue you you are toast. The miners found good air and waited for the Feds until they ran out of air, they did just what the Feds told them in training to do. If there is blame lay it at the feet of the Feds whose slow CYA mentality finished off these miners. I have over 20 years in the mines and I know.
Why is it a Federal responsibility?
While the media was busy sharing in the euphoria too cause great ratings they had no time to confirm the rumors.
I did not catch any media trying to help anyone. They were loving every second of every interview with a family member prior to the rumor around midnight. Afterthat they had so much fun interviewing happy family members.
Every single family member miner rescue worker ect. in this particular situation was exploited by the media.
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