Mining Accident Aftermath

[Greg B]

What's pissing me off more than the irresponsible news reporting about this accident that has devestated people, now the news is focusing on the haphazard dangers of mining and safety regulations.

Why does it always seem to take a disaster to focus on what should have been focused on in the first place to prevent the disaster???

A fucking shame.

[Furious_Male]

I know. Even the financial channels were doing interviews with "industry experts" today. They claim each mine is only inspected twice a year and there are plenty of illegal (unsafe) mining operations.

[pornpf69]

disaster is what sell papers...so they only have shit like that on the news...good thing are never on the news...

[Doctor Dre]

anything to take the heat away from this industry for a while is good

[Greg B]

I know. Even the financial channels were doing interviews with "industry experts" today. They claim each mine is only inspected twice a year and there are plenty of illegal (unsafe) mining operations.

See?!!! That's what I'm talking about.

I know the folks from that area of the country. I've got kinfolk that live so far back in the woods that Bigfoot is the mail man.

They're not dumb people either. The Hollywood movie snobs push that on the media. These are simple, God fearing people who just go to work and raise their kids. Sure there are problems but it's a depressed area. Farming is destroyed because the big corporate farms took over and the government didn't do squat. Only thing is mining.

If you saw the NBC Nightly News you saw how they criticized the government regulators of 'being more like partners' with the coal mining companies instead of inspecting and fining them as they're supposed to.

People are being sold out all over the country for corporate greed and with that guy what got busted for campaign bribery taking a dive, you can bet a scandal of mega proportions is gonna hit and you're gonna see how payoffs run this country.

[Greg B]

anything to take the heat away from this industry for a while is good

Ja, that's what the administration thought about alot of disasters this past year. But those disasters showed just how incompetent the leadership is. Showed how their heads are more in their foreign interests instead of domestic.

I ain't blaming Bush. Disasters happen, but how you respond to and lead how to be prepared this administration's leadership is abyssmal.

Coal rose 50% over the past year like gas and oil and people saw that and jumped on the band wagon fast. Greed and speed are a deadly combination.

[Greg B]

Ja, and the news papers and news services are looking like the clowns they are and we all know them to be. Running with stories without confirmation!

I grew up in journalism. When I was in, you HAD to have three reputable sources before reporting something. Nowadays it's so lack and haphazard you don't know what you're getting. If they fucked up this story and got caught, how many stories are running rough shod and not getting the bite?

[je_rome]

I just wish those stupid news reporters would be trapped in that cave.