Re: Dead or Alive
- From: "Amused" <Amused@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:42:09 -0600
"Jane" <?> wrote in message
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> "Hãrõlð" <hiletroyNOTTHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
> news:
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> | On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:36:41 -0800, Littleguy <Littleguy@xxxxxxxx>
> | wrote:
> |
> | >Miscommunication?
> | >
> | >I'll reserve my thoughts on who's head needs to be cut off, but it's
> | >clear that someone isn't going to be sleeping well tonight.
> |
> | I'm guessing this about the WVA coal mine disaster. Seems they
> | received word of the removal of the only survivor first, then cell
> | phones rang everywhere that they all were found alive, with the rumor
> | mill running wild. It started with relatives and 'concerned
> | employees' both inside and outside the church they staged the families
> | in. So, cruel letdown, but not any offical negligance or fault, as
> | far as the latest imvestigation is concerned, so far..
>
> Due to the time differences, I watched the story unfold as it happened.
>
> Harold -- the fact that the mining company knew that the
> "miscommunication" was
> just that -- a miscommunication -- 20 minutes after it had been given out,
> yet
> the officials refrained from informing the families for AT LEAST three
> hours is
> negligence and fault in my eyes. How could they possibly have left those
> poor
> people to rejoice and jubilate for so long before telling them the truth
> is
> beyond me.
>
> Jane
>
As I understand it...
The mine officials were caught in a trap, not of their own making. They
were not operating at the church, and didn't realize that it was being
broadcast nation....opps, worldwide. (One supposes that they were actually
too busy to watch CNN news, at the time). And when they did find out, they
were stuck, since at that particular time, they didn't know for certain, or
at least were not prepared to announce that everyone else was dead. So an
announcement to counter the media-fueled rumor that all was well, would have
been a yo-yo effect, and just a cruel on the friends and relatives.
I don't know the answer, BTW. There certainly was a desperate need to know,
on the part of a good many people, and it certainly was a newsworthy event.
One would hope that Anderson Cooper would be a more responsible talking
head, but he's obviously given to sensationism, and probably more worried
about building a following, than actually providing verified news.
We've seen it before.
Do you know about Geraldo Rivera? (One of the very few reporters that
actually got his ass kicked out of Iraq, because he sketched out rough
coalition battleplans in the sand for a live audience. Including any enemy
Iraqi's that might be tuning in.) BTW, I don't think he was treasonous. I
think he was stupid.
James...
"The public has a right to know."
"Well the public may have a right to know, but that doesn't mean they have a
right to know from you."
.
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