Watch the other story

The Star cannot be held responsible for the lack of correct reporting from the West Virginia mine site.

The officials there should have withheld any news until they were certain. The news people on site should have investigated before broadcasting. Ditto for the wire services.

More than that, in my opinion, the lobbyist story should have remained the center article. The death of the miners was tragic, but every day many more are dying in Iraq.

The lobbyist story is extremely important to the whole nation and needs to be front and center.

Dana Neilon
Olathe

When the church bells rang and family members wept with joy, reporters from such infotainment networks as FOX, CNN and MSNBC ran with unconfirmed facts and interviewed everyone they could find in Tallmansville, asking the friends and family members of the missing miners to talk about the miracle.

Then these same networks pointed their cameras at these very same people, prompting them now to express not only their grief but also their anger at the mining company for its tragic delay in providing accurate information.

The recent tragedy of the Sago mine explosion and the death of 12 men was (and continues to be) compounded by what now passes for broadcast news journalism.

There would be very little human drama in it, but how about some stories that offer basic facts and lead readers and viewers to explore and consider their significance? Perhaps a story that explores the increasingly cooperative relationship (what many would call outright collusion) between big business and the Department of Labor and other federal watchdog agencies.

Scott Saylor
Mission

Comments

[irishguy]

"Labor unions or anti-war lobbyists? As far as labor, these miners get payed very well to risk thier lives with the knowledge that this kind of thing can and likely will happen."

For the record, the Sago mine was non-union.

[tomw]

mechascott-The coal mine collapse story pushed a story about the Abramoff scandal from front and center. If I were cynical (or is that God fearing), I might suggest that God removed his protective shield in such a way as to limit the negative publicity on our God fearing congress.

[mechascott_42]

the lobbyist story should have remained the center article. The death of the miners was tragic, but every day many more are dying in Iraq.

The lobbyist story is extremely important to the whole nation and needs to be front and center.
------which lobbyists are they talking about? Labor unions or anti-war lobbyists? As far as labor, these miners get payed very well to risk thier lives with the knowledge that this kind of thing can and likely will happen. They know the risk, and they choose to take it. I don't mean to sound callous, but these accidents happen all the time. It is true that they are usually the result of human error, but how safe can you make explosives in a tunnel?

Perhaps a story that explores the increasingly cooperative relationship (what many would call outright collusion) between big business and the Department of Labor and other federal watchdog agencies.
------good luck running a story like that!!! If you can actually find a source that would talk about the truth, your source would likely disappear before the article reached publication.