Absurd. You're suggesting that for three hours while church bells rang and people celebrated around them the media should have sat on it and waited for confirmation from the company or a government official. That's simply absurd. But hey, on the up side, you find yourself in agreement with Greg Mitchell.
kinda pissed off
was just watching the abc primetime show where the have a special about the coal miners. pretty good show until they couldn't help themselves with bush bashing saying under the bush administration the coal inspections have become lax blah blah blah