HuffingtonPost: It Shouldn't Have Taken the Deaths of Three Miners to Get the Media to Focus on Mine

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It Shouldn't Have Taken the Deaths of Three Miners to Get the Media to Focus on Mine Safety
by Arianna Huffington


So last night, suddenly, after the tragic second collapse at the Utah mine, there was a dramatic shift in the TV coverage of the story. All at once, faux folksy mining boss Bob Murray, who had been everywhere, was nowhere to be found (even sending in a junior executive to handle this morning's press conference). In his place, at long last, were actual scientists, and experts on mine safety and the workings of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Bush mine safety czar Richard "Recess Appointment" Stickler was also absent last night, and did not appear again until this morning's press conference.

So many questions were finally being asked. Prompting one more: What took so long? Why did it take a tragic second collapse before the Murray and Strickler PR Show was finally replaced by actual journalism?

Why did it take until this morning for CNN to finally run a chyron saying "Safety of Rescue Operation Debated"? For 12 days, there was precious little debate about why the mine had collapsed in the first place, or about the safety of the rescue operation -- which was, by law, in the hands of Stickler, another "heck of a job" Bush special, a coal industry insider who couldn't even win the approval of a GOP-controlled Senate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/it-shouldnt-have-taken-t_b_60894.html

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1. Of course it shouldn't have, but the media has the attention span of

a Red Bulled, ADHD eight year old. Only now are they starting to barely scrutinize owner Bob Mur--

Lindsay Lohan is where now?

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2. kick