TELL CNN WE'RE NOT INTERESTED IN THE MINE ACCIDENT ANYMORE!!!

[Harper_is_Bush]

Go here:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

Choose CNN TV and tell them what you think about this wall to wall saturation about the Sago mine.

Yes, it is a tragedy for that town. Yes, safety in mines needs to be looked at. But ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

LEAVE THOSE PEOPLE ALONE YOU SICK SICK SICK BASTARDS!!

AND GET BACK TO SOME NEWS WITH NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE YOU LAZY LAZY FUCKS!!

Fucking tabloid shitheads.

[kentuck]

1. Why?

:shrug:

[Brundle_Fly]

6. because its the fourth night of stupid coverage

there is nothing left to tell, yes people died, more soldier's have died in Iraq this the 6th day of the year.

Cunningham wire a wire.

they are voting delay out.

bush is spying on their star reporter.

bush made 17 recess appointments

up to 60 republicans are corrupt.



there is much more important news atm

cnn = bozos

I hate to say that I miss Aruba compared to this crap, at least there was some iota of intrigue there.

[Harper_is_Bush]

8. Because

It's not newsworthy to the extent that they're pushing it.

They are exploiting the very personal tragedy of this town.

There is much more important news going on in the world.

Have you been watching the disgusting display? Experts telling us what it's like to die that way. Interviews with everyone and thier horse in the town. Total and complete saturation in a tabliod style.

Perhaps you ask "why" because you don't care about CNN? Can you explain yourself a little more?

[eridani]

31. The problem is that they aren't saying jack--

--about the destruction of unions and the dictatorship of businesses over agencies that are supposed to regulate them. That would be a real story.

[Harper_is_Bush]

11. Another reason why:

Study says Congo suffering world's deadliest humanitarian crisis, 38,000 dead monthly
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/news/20060107p2g00m0in005000c.html

Need more?

[Catrina]

22. Because no story needs days and days of 24/7 coverage

A news media outlet ought to be able to cover more than one story in 24 hours. CNN can do that, but I guess they are happy to have a tragedy to cover, so that they can avoid embarrassing this administration.

I turned it off days ago. If I want updates, I get them on the radio. C-Span has coverage of the Abramoff plea and the heargings which will be repeated this weekend. Far better than watching tabloid journalism preying on the sorrow of those people, trying to create a media blackout of the enormous Republican scandals unfolding as another Republican pleads guilty to corruption.

11 soldiers died yesterday. Are their deaths less tragic than the miners'? Did the media go to their towns to talk to their neighbors, family members etc.? Did they go to find out if Bush is still shipping dead troops home as cargo on commercial airlines?

Have they covered any of the families whose loved ones are still missing in New Orleans? About 6,000 last I heard, over a thousand of them, children. Have they gone, as they promised, to hold the feet of the PTBs to the fire, to make sure that every lost US citizen's body is found and treated with respect, not left in the rubble to rot?

No, they have not because coverage of any these stories will show that this president allowed thousands of his own citizens to die. That when they died, he made no attempt to lead the effort to recover every body, and as a result, people are returning to their ruined homes to find the bodies of their loved left to rot in the rubble. In what country in the world is this allowed to happen? This is evil! Would Clinton have gotten away with this or would the media have shamed him into doing something about it? I think we know the answer.

And what country in the world has a president who orders the bodies of its soldiers to be hidden, as if he was ashamed of them, and spirited in in the dark of night?

Shame on CNN for their complicity in all of this. It will go down in history as one of the most shameful periods in recent times.

[Greyhound]

41. I seem to remember that CNN used to report the news, 24 hours a

day, then they were sold to Warner that learned it's cheaper to re-run the same story off the wires over and over. Used to be 100's of reporters around the world submitting stories every day, now there's just a dozen talking heads reading the same thing to the sheeple.

[Greyhound]

42. Because it is a local incident that's being used to cover-up the real news

they don't want us seeing.

[0007]

47. Because it stupid to go around and around and around in the

same fucking circle.

[rwheeler31]

2. This is important, because the cronies they put in charge

are industry insiders.

[Virginian]

3. I wanna see that guy from "godhatesfags.com" creamed by miners.

He said he was going to WV to protest at the funerals. I didn't understand his logic, but he put it on his web site.

[bluestateguy]

15. That would be cool

No jury in WV would convict them either.

[Oversea Visitor]

19. Hmmm

On CNN hmmm thats be good let the whole world see how ugly these mad people are.

[ReverendDeuce]

46. I was just thinking... if he shows up, he is likely to be attacked...

Those mining communities are tough.

[buddysmellgood]

4. I would like to see more stories on mine safety and how Bushco has

sold all govt regulation to industry.

[saged52]

12. I agree -

I am still hopeful that the lack of unions, safety and recourse will make the air waves. And I keep thinking of Mother Jones - pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

[Petrushka]

50. Agreed! That kind of news would be GOOD news, indeed!

BUT . . . on second thought . . . after reading all that's being said about CNN's coverage of the Sago Mine disaster . . . well, maybe we should thank God that we can't afford cable TV out here in the boonies???

Hm-m.

Here, where ball games, etc., are much more important than any in-State coal mining disaster . . . here, where the coal interests sorta bring ya the news . . . here, after watching what little our local TV station aired about the disaster and, then, rotating the rooftop TV antenna & aiming it toward Pittsburgh, 65 miles away as the crow flies . . . well, now . . . here, some of us are left wanting more coverage!

.

[wickerwoman]

5. How else are you going to fill 24hrs..

when you refuse to talk about anything damaging to Bush?

[zulchzulu]

7. The Weekend Crew has arrived...I suggest you turn your TV off

They will suck the last piece of whatever is left to the story...especially now that the weekend help has arrived. As long as the survivor is still alive, they will be following the story..and of course, NOT asking the right questions.

Take a break and turn the idiot tube off. Stay sane.

[Skittles]

9. I am interested in updates but not round the clock coverage

this smacks of tabloid journalism

[katinmn]

13. MSNBC's Rita Cosby gushes about how "fascinating"

she finds every sad/disturbing nugget she can unearth.

She is really becoming the Queen Ghoul.

[blonndee]

29. Yup, she's the worst of the worst among the CNN/MSNBC crew. She belongs

at FAUX, from whence she came. Trash. I can't stand that exploitative, breathless media whore.

[Clark2008]

35. She can tell you 'bout the plane crash, with a gleam in her eye.

Give us Dirty Laundry.


...with due respect to Don Henley.

[DianeG5385]

10. Who's We? Many Americans care deeply

It would'nt be on TV otherwise. Think about the implications of their deaths and tragically they were misused. You might find the coverage interesting then.. I think this may make a lot of Americans reconsider the value of UNIONS.

[Harper_is_Bush]

14. That would be fine if they focussed a little on that...

instead of all the the 24/7 human story pieces and yip yapin' about the communications screw up.

It's WAY out of proportion IMO. It sickens me to see that town exploited like this also.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

43. But are they focusing on Unions? No. They just like the goriness.

Maybe we need to insist they do a report on unions and mine safety.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. Why don't we write them?

Let's tell them to STOP the 24-hour mine coverage and get on to vital issues that affect our country.

[Harper_is_Bush]

17. Please do. See the topic post above for the feedback link.....n/t

[Tom Joad]

18. Not interested in working people?!? I'm sorry, but your post is offensive

I understand your concern in the way it is presented in the mainstream media, however. They present it as a human interest story... like it was a simple accident.
This is the kind of reporting that should be done.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/05/1454250

We're joined on the phone now by Ken Ward, Jr., an investigative reporter who wrote an award-winning series of articles for the Charleston Gazette about coal industry abuses in West Virginia, revealing state regulators routinely ignore the law when they issue mountaintop removal permits. His series in the Charleston Gazette began in 1998. We also invited I.C.G., the International Coal Group, to be on the program, but they didn't return our calls. Ken Ward, welcome to Democracy Now!

KEN WARD: Thank you.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, you've been involved with covering this disaster, as well as disasters before. Can you lay out the safety record of the Sago Mine?

KEN WARD: Well, your all’s introduction included some of the numbers that have been fairly widely reported by the media thus far. And it's clear from those numbers that we had a mine here that had a lot of problems. They had had at least a dozen roof falls in the last six months. They had had accumulations of combustible material. Gene kits, a former Massey Energy official who is one of the main people running I.C.G. right now, said at one of their press conferences that, well if these violations were so bad, then regulators would have shut us down. And, in fact, as your introduction said, on numerous occasions MSHA inspectors used their authority to temporarily shut down parts of that mine, because of serious safety problems.

[Harper_is_Bush]

21. Dishonest way of portraying what I'm saying...

and you know it.

Why not give as much attention to the 11 US soldiers who died the other day?

Or the reportedly 38,000 dying in the Congo every month due to humanitarian crisis. Aren't they "working people"? Not interested in them?

How offensive.

Maybe some think there's value or "human interest" in this 24/7 tabloid treatment of this town, it's people, and it's tragedy. I think those same people probably get a lot of value and "human interest" from buying the colorful celebrity magazines sold at the grocery cash register.

[Tom Joad]

25. I know that the media is treating this in its own crazy way, but

to say this is not a important story at all is hurtful to people who are struggling... and dying... in this anti-union environment. You should have made that more clear.

Again, the media does go crazy... for over a year it talked about Scott peterson/laci... you would have reporters at the house 24/7... and then for live reports to say nothing new.

Still, if you headlined this as the media needs to get to the real story about the mineworkers, it would not have come off as so offensive. Because there is a real story here that is relevant to millions of americans.

[Burma Jones]

27. I agree with you

But I think the media is mostly catering to peoples' need to feel something.....

Millenia ago, Aristotle wrote about what constitutes Tragedy. One of the things he said was that Tragedy should provoke Terror and Pity, I believe that's what we're seeing here, it's what people want to see so they can clear some crap out of their own psyches.

If some of that Terror and Pity translates into Compassion for people that work these dangerous professions, and a growing disbelief in the hyper wealthy peoples' advertised moral fibre, then there's hope....

Unfortunately, the folks that own the media are the hyper wealthy.....

[Vinnie From Indy]

28. You have as much chance of getting CNN to cover the story from that angle

as I do getting monkeys to fly out of my ass. I understand and agree with your desire to have real and important stories told by media about union, blue collar, working men and women, but CNN will NEVER cover stories with that perspective. They are part of a corporate machine that acts in it's best interests and those are not the interests of the people you so passionately care about.

[uppityperson]

20. around 200 Iraqi's just got killed too.Wonder if they left notes?

MSM news=pap for the commonfolk.

Edited for sloppy fingers

[Harper_is_Bush]

24. Yes. Or if they were "working people"? Ah...I guess the next Pentagon..

briefing covered live by CNN will tell us everything we need to know about that.

[skids]

23. No tell them this:

"If you want to report on the mine accident, fine, but at least do some research into the cronyist gutting of OSHA and MSHA by the Bush administration. It's far better than rehashing information we've all heard 50 times, and it might give you something to talk about other than your own oopses in reporting the fatalities."

[erinlough]

26. I did it because.......

I think they are being exploitive of the families and their loss without advocating for the lost miners. They should be reporting the damage done be this administration to the safety of the miners and the destruction of the unions who worked to protect them. They listen to the religious people who write to complain about the "Book of Daniel" program, why shouldn't they hear from me?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

30. There has been plenty of coverage of other stories throughout newscasts

today and yesterday, and frankly I still consider these threads undermining the disaster to be so full of selfishness and cold-heartedness it ain't even funny.

Personally, I'm interested in the mine story. If you aren't, turn the channel and get over it.

[blonndee]

32. I don't see how this thread is "undermining the disaster."

I think the OP is sick of the exploitative nature of the newscasts and the irresponsibility of the networks.

I watched the "coverage" as it happened and I was sicked by the reporters literally CHASING grieving family members. I want to know what's happening as much as any other person, and I have followed the mine tragedy since Monday, but I think you're unfairly characterizing the OP's position AND mine.

The problem with your statement "turn the channel and get over it" is that ALL of the networks are harping on these families' tragedy and NOT covering other news, so there isn't a real alternative when it comes to cable news.

I mostly agree with you on your other positions, as "radical" as they may be, ;) but on this one I have to disagree.

[Harper_is_Bush]

38. Did you hear the latest from CNN?

Sanjey was on last night speculating that the other 11 miners could very likely have been alive!

Isn't that just so...intersting? And selfless and warm-hearted!

Did you lose someone in that mine?
Putting myself in the shoes of having lost someone, I would be so angry at CNN for it's coverage over the last few days....it's obvious exploitation of my loss for it's ratings...Oh gee whiz though, I should just turn the channel and get over it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. Did you listen to Randi Rhodes today?

She did a great job of explaining why the media dwells on these kinds of stories. They are safe while the real news is not.

[obxhead]

34. Done.... Thank you....

I understand that this "accident" may be much more than that, but come on...

It is time to let these families grieve in the privacy of their choosing. It is time the MSM reports on things that effect the whole, not just the few.

To those of you who will flame me I ask:
How is your family connected to the horrible loss of these miners?

[Petrushka]

51. If your computer -- and your TV -- is coal-fired . . .

. . . that is, if the members of your family connect their electronic gadgetry to a plug in the wall, they "...pay for their supposedly cheap electricity through tax incentives to the coal industry and FEMA assistance for flooded communities...." And, according to the Coal River Mountain Watch, a citizens' action watchdog group in southern West Virginia, "...as we've seen time and time again, Appalachian people pay for it with their lives."

(emphasis added)

[obxhead]

52. I'm sorry, we use Hydroelectric power sources here...

Yes the mine disaster is a horrible tragedy to happen in Amerika and I do believe it only happened due to the failure of a very profitable corporation with a serious lack of government oversight, but....

12 dead is a small comparison in news compared to Iraq.
There is far more happening withing our government that deserves much more coverage.

While I sincerely believe the mine accident is not to be ignored, I also believe the world has much bigger problems that must be focused upon. I do not need 24/7 coverage of the medical condition of one survivor from a single mine accident.

(edit)

If the MSM was attacking the corp that made so much money and attacking the government for a lack of action against the corp my thoughts might have been less severe, but I still believe we (every living person) has far more to worry about than this horrible disaster.

[Petrushka]

53. Didn't your TV come with a remote control?

Yeah, there's probably lots more newsworthier events than the Sago Mine disaster! But . . .

CNN obviously doesn't care to show cable users any of that news at this particular time. Threaten them! Tell 'em your gonna quit paying your cable bill. Then, get ya an olde-fashioned roof antenna with a rotor. That'll fix 'em!

Oh! . . . And! . . . Forgive me for misquoting the Coal River Mountain Watch. Should have said: "All Americans pay for their supposedly cheap electricity through tax incentives to the coal industry and FEMA assistance for flooded communities...." (emphasis added) Although you use hydroelectric power sources, "All Americans...." would include you, too. Unless, of course, you aren't paying any taxes!

PAX!

[obxhead]

54. Oh I happily flame CNN for a failure to provide

substantial news about global and Amerikan situations as well, believe me, but....

I ask:
Do we really need 24/7 coverage of a single survivor of this disaster. How about coverage of so many of our wounded coming home from Iraq only to find themselves homeless and without proper medical coverage. My message to CNN covered that aspect as well.

I do not ask for the MSM to ignore this tragedy, but I do ask them to broadcast news that effects all of us. This disaster does effect us all (emphasis added) in a strong way but, I believe a 24 hour day has some room for other news as well.

[Petrushka]

55. I agree with what you're saying . . .

. . . but, forgive me for not having much sympathy for those who subscribe to cable TV. My mother--who lived in another area of the county--was forever phoning and complaining about her cable TV! So, when cable became available in our area, we wouldn't have it if they gave it to us!

In fact, the cable company offered to provide us with free cable TV if we'd just allow it to use the power company's poles and right-of-way across our property. The cable company didn't, however, make its generous offer until after we went down to the County Courthouse to take a look at that olde right-of-way deed!



Have a nice day! :-)

[lies and propaganda]

36. they have to cya and make it look like they arent such assholes

I blame the media SO MUCH for the telephoning of info they didnt bother to actually verify, irresponsible pieces of shit.
Hardly something the 'bleeding heart liberal media' would ever do.

[Harper_is_Bush]

37. After posting this last night, I went and took a look at CNN....

They had Sanjey Gupta on with the first doctor on scene, and Sanjay was speculating how it's quite possible the other 11 miners WERE alive...that the symptoms of hypothermia might have just made them seem dead.

Fucking assholes.

[Mutley]

39. I agree they should leave the grieving families alone

but if we just run off chasing the next big story like we have attention spans of two year olds, then the problems that caused this accident in the first place will never be solved.

[Harper_is_Bush]

40. Yes, the problems that caused the accident should be looked at...

But this is far and beyond anything like that. This is a complete milking of the story in a sensationalistic manner.

The last straw for me was listening to Sanjay Gupta speculate last night that the 11 dead miners might have been alive when they were found. To me that's just evil. No doubt the next aspect of this story will be CNN dutifully covering the outrage of family members who've been stirred up by thier own suggestion.

Look at what went wrong. Give it it's due, certainly. But 24/7 coverage in an entertainment tonight sort of fashion is not right.

[DemGirl7]

44. I'm sure on Monday the insanity will stop

With the Alito confirmation hearings starting on Monday, the MSM, with their short attention spans, will focus on Alito, and we would probably not hear anymore about the Sago mine.

[Harper_is_Bush]

58. It's Monday. Now we get to see and hear about the funerals.

Private grief, and they have microphones and cameras stuffed in peoples faces as they exit the church.

[WHAT]

45. I wanna know...

why the CM messed-up...

and whadda they do'in to cover the fifth estate/their flaks?

huh...?...huh?...hunh?

[Chomskyite]

48. But this is too big an opportunity for us

This is highlighting so much of what is wrong about the decisions corporate greedheads are making nowadays. We can piggyback onto this and maybe save some lives.

[upi402]

49. TV news traitors must be exposed for the vermin they are.

The hairdo-whoredome sect of baby eating, satanic, talking heads will just revert to more missing white chicks and boner pill controversy.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

56. Media does only stories that won't offend corporate entities

Or if they do a story, they focus only on those aspects that won't offend corporate entities. For example, they won't cover this mine incident with a view to why this happened (the fact that Reagan and Republicans deregulated corporations and handicapped agencies that would regulate safety in all workplaces, and that unions are the only salvaation for workers where the govt. will not look out for them).

This might be a human interest story, but if not focused on why it happened, it's (as usual) useless. The media is useless because it's a whore of the corporate world.

[Harper_is_Bush]

57. Tonight on CNN: "Hope and Heartbreak, Inside Sago Mine Tragedy"

Grief, anger as all but one miner found dead
Timeline: Mine explosion
Sound of moans' led rescuers to surviving miner
Gallery: Relative: Trapped miners left notes

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/index.html

Sickening.

[malaise]

59. Actually we need to tell them

that it would be far more touching if they spent more time dealing with the death of soldiers in this illegal war.

[insane_cratic_gal]

60. I'm telling CNN I'm not interested in THEM

anymore.

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sick and tired of these guys lying at the frickin time.

Come on! They were all over Clinton with the whole penis scandal broke.

Bush acts like a freaking Thug, wire tap everyone..starts an illegal war, most unpopular pResident and they are still his lap dog?! WTF

[Harper_is_Bush]

61. Now it's time for the funerals...coffins and grieving families at church..

THAT outta sell some cars!

Booo-yah!

[wallybarron]

62. Media coverage

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=83816&mesg_id=83816