Holy Crap!
Why do we pay people to make safety rules if they go routinely ignored with impunity. Are the rules made just to give the miners a false of sense of security? To make those of us who believe in work place safety feel better?
Is there any wonder that Benzodiazpine addiction is epidemic in mining country?
Your Media in Action
According to Arianna, the man who brought you the Judy Miller, Queen of All Iraq show has a few things to say about the Crandall Canyon Mine tragedy:
Despite so many questions left unanswered about the mine’s safety and the decisions the mine’s owners made, the Times did no follow up. Indeed, New York Times readers - and shareholders — would have been better (much better) served if Times editors had spared the expense of sending reporters to Huntington and had just republished the reports from the Salt Lake Tribune and AP.
Instead, last night, Sulzberbger preferred to rationalize away his paper’s choices. “I’m told that 324 violations are not a lot,” he said to me.
I guess it isn’t if you’re not the one who winds up at the bottom of a fucking mineshaft.
Read Tula’s posts about mine owner Bob Murray, the union-hating nut who talks to squirrels. While it may just be bad reporting and a reflexive tendency to take information in small, digestible bites from professional PR flacks, the choice by the Times and other outlets to portray Murray as a cuddly, benevolent patriarch in the wake of what happened is sounding a bit like “let them eat cake.”
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The Nazis, Fascists and Communists were political parties before they became enemies of liberty and mass murderers.
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