Someone slap me

[leftstreet]

This Corporate Media obsession with the trapped miners is making my teeth itch. WTF? With all due respect to the miners, their family and friends - it IS nonetheless a regional issue. Once the media announce there are miners trapped (anywhere), Americans are either praying for them or visualizing their safe return. An occasional update is fine, but the situation doesn't warrant 24/7

BREAKING NEWS

coverage, until the miners are actually found.


But the Corporate Whores were on this story all night. And that horrid Rita Person on M$NBC, "what was your reaction when you learned your family member may be..." Jeebus! Leave those poor family members alone!

ARGH! Am I nuts?

[NMMNG]

1. How many of the miners are white?

I'll bet most of them, if not all of them, are. That's why it warrants 24-hour coverage in the eyes of Faux and CNN.

Compare that to the fact that an average of 11.29 Latinos and 4.13 Blacks are murdered in Los Angeles every single day, yet we never hear about this. Does most of L.A. even hear about this?

But when a pretty white girl gets lost in Aruba, some white woman runs away from her wedding, or some white men get trapped in a mine it's the story of the year.








Statistics from http://www.cdrewu.edu/rcmi/Site/GIS/data/HomicideinLAC.shtml

[leftstreet]

6. True enough. n/t

[hickman1937]

10. I'm sorry but I think you're wrong there.

If any of the miners were black it would have been televised worldwide just for show, bet me. As my co-worker Phyllis says, "We're always on show."

[barb162]

2. well, it's a personal interest story plus 13 at one time are/ were

trapped. I think it's great they found most of them alive. I thought they were all dead. I am happy for those that got out alive. In two days we probably won't be hearing about it

[leftstreet]

5. "In two days we probably won't be hearing about it"

You got that right.

It ultimately seems so disrespectful to those poor miners and their families. The media whores won't be there to help them put their lives back together. Think Katrina.

[madeline_con]

3. I got the old "what for" from Hubby.

I said basically that there is a war on, Repugs being indicted, and every time I'd turned on the news in the last 2 days, it was all mine all the time.

He accused me of not caring. :banghead:

[NMMNG]

4. My friend Mike was ranting about how silly it was for the story to be

24-7 national news. I had to agree, callous though it may sound.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. It's an easy story

Park the truck, aim the dish, stick a couple of "reporters" with microphones out there, get some mundane "how do you feel" quotes. Back at HQ, do some googling about mines for filler.

News costs money. How well-informed do you want to be?

:eyes:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. You have hit the nail on the head, my dear Oeditpus Rex......

And God forbid we spend any money on NEWS.....

[gordontron]

9. aarggg

make no mistake their loss is horrible, but there are so many other ongoing problems that do the same thing (like what was mentioned above). The news media likes very emotional, short, and sensational stories to keep their ratings up. Doing any actual reporting about ongoing problems is not as easy. I'm going to hide now, tell me when I can start paying attention to the mainstreem news, and be proud of our journalists :scared:








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[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Network news divisions aren't cost-effective

Their return on investment, expressed as ad revenue vs. cost, is the lowest of any other division. (Sitcoms and whatnot are relatively cheap to produce.) So the suits are always on the news chiefs to keep costs down, and the easiest way to do that besides layoffs is to run cheap-to-produce news.

A similar thing happens with newspapers, where the editorial side gets far less financial support, on a percentage basis, than advertising and circulation. The suits love to remind editors and reporters, "You don't create revenue."

The smart editor or reporter responds, "No, I don't — I guarantee it."

But most fear too much for their jobs to be that smart.