You yourself requested that your breaking news post be taken down in favor of a post on this story made prior to yours. Sheez...
When the Edmund Fitzgerald first went missing, Captain Cooper of the Arthur Anderson couldn’t get Soo Control, the Coast Guard connected group in charge of overseeing all boats on the Great Lakes, to even listen to his report. Soo Control was focused on locating a 14 or 16 ft (can’t remember which) fishing boat that was missing. (The crew of the small boat, it later turned out, was sheltering on an island.)
The third time Cooper called Soo Control, he shouted in his loudest voice that the Fitz was missing. Soo Control finally paid attention.
Another possible reason:
Video of an empty ocean isn’t very interesting.
There are after all only 24 hours in a news cycle...
Basic fact is a ship lost at sea in a Cat 4 hurricane compared to 9 innocent lives gunned down in cold blood isn't much of a contest in news worthiness...
Plus of course, ship lost at sea doesn't fit every well into the MSM narrative of trying to link the POS whack job to the Tea Party / GOP / Republican blame game...
Their resources were spent on trying to make that link instead of "reporting all the news"
Gezz, the story was all over Fox, CNN ets last night and this morning. Cable is often late by days on some stories.
They can’t figure out how to use it against Trump, but don’t think they’re not looking.
The latest update on Bing search...50 minutes ago
The sea is a very unforgiving mistress. Those who go out to meet her anger know what price is to be paid for poorly maintained and/or non redundant equipment.
I have been following the story, though there is not much to report I see no shortage of reporting on it. Do a search for news of cargo ship and you will find lots of reports all saying the same thing.
I don’t know if there was a deliberate blackout of the news, “BUT” if there is; as I don my tin foil hat, what was on that ship they don’t want anyone to know about?
Hat off...
I don’t have cable or dish, but I have been trying to follow this story online. Not only is a ship and its crew possibly lost; but there is also risk to our Coast Guard S&R teams.
I think it is news-worthy and our thoughts and prayers are with the crew and their family members. (And the CG personnel who are out there trying to find them.)
This must be awful for the family members, and more so because of it being a bad judgment call by the shipping co.
Probably lying next to the USS CYCLOPS.
The news items that get intensive coverage from the media often strike me as odd. In 1997, for instance, the networks devoted considerable attention to a story about a baby who died at the hands of a babysitter—That may have been the biggest story of the year.
Last year, as I was flying home from San Antonio, Texas, I had to change planes in El Paso. While waiting for my plane, I bought a local paper that included a story about a local case that was almost identical—a baby dying at the hands if a babysitter. However, it’s a safe bet that the story never made it out of the Rio Grande valley.
Nowhere on that giant ship is a GPS locator?
Given the fact that Obama ruins everything he touches, could anything be due to incompetence at NOAA, USCG or any other gov agencies?
So you want hourly reports that say nothing new to report? Seriously?
Latest update. Additional items found at sea: http://www.wmtw.com/news/reports-4-mainers-on-board-cargo-ship-lost-at-sea/35639464
Boats sink all the time with no coverage. Because boats sink all the time. It’s a dog bites man story. Especially when it’s just a cargo vessel with 33 people on it. Cruise ship with 3000 is news.
Here is the latest update from USCG (oil slick found)
http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2607474/
Thread on gcaptain forum
http://www.gcaptain.com/forum/maritime-news/17656-sea-star-el-faro.html