Posted on 01/04/2006 7:02:35 AM PST by SteveMcKing
DrudgeReport exposes them....
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/national/04mine.html
NY Times Lied, Miners Died...
Front page says otherwise.
http://www.nytimes.com/
I went on their website a little while ago and they were reporting 12 dead.
NYT doesn't really care about what happens in "fly over country". Or maybe they have all been handcuffed by the FBI and taken in for questioning.
Dream on.
(Just what do you have to do to get indicted for treason these days?)
No, it just depends what time Drudge checked their website. The information there is correct. The NYT has a lot to answer for in some of its reporting, but there is nothing to be gained by making things up.
Ace in the Hole (AKA The Big Carnival) (1951)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling Director: Billy Wilder Rating:
Storyline
Genres: Drama, Film-Noir
Plot Outline: When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, a self-interested reporter and the townspeople cynically create what we now call a "media circus".
Plot Synopsis: One of several literary and artistic works based on events surrounding the 1925 entrapment and death of W. Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Ky. See also Robert Penn Warren's novel _The Cave_
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/379/379350p1.html
Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. The Big Carnival), 1951, co-wr/dir. Billy Wilder. This is a deeply cynical Film Noir sadly based on an actual 1925 tragedy. Charles Tatum (Douglas) is a down-on-his-luck, obnoxious journalist who once worked for a big city newspaper but is now stuck at a small town paper in New Mexico. The hard-drinking Tatum finds his meal-ticket back to the big leagues when a miner named Leo Minosa becomes trapped in a cave-in.
Tatum hypes the event into a national news story, engineering a lucrative media frenzy and a despicable public circus while also duping Minosa into believing he's his savior. Even though Minosa could be rescued more quickly by shoring up the cave's tunnels, Tatum, who's eager to keep this "big carnival" in town, convinces the rescuers to employ a lengthier drilling process instead. Going along with Tatum's ambitious plan is Minosa's greedy and conniving wife (Jan Sterling) who's looking to cash in on her unanticipated notoriety. Tatum's plan, however, goes tragically awry. The final low-angle shot of Tatum collapsing into frame symbolizes his self-propelled downfall.
Ace in the Hole is a grim but eerily prescient look at the media's unquenchable thirst for "the big story" and the public's willingness to play along. Wilder mercilessly eviscerates the gawking masses that set up shop to commercialize Minosa's tragedy. Although a box office flop in its day, Ace remains a relentless indictment of the public's and the media's appetite for entertainment and fortune even at the expense of human life.
As of a short time ago the New Haven Register website still had "Mine miracle" as their big headline with the article reporting they were dead lower down on the page. I can't believe after all these hours that these web people can't correct themselves.
Lots of other papers did the same thing along with other media. I am not a NYT defender but this time they just did what everyone else did.
The Slimes is too busy trying to make this country more vulnerable to another terrorist attack and destroying President Bush to care about updating their website.
Didn't you know that?
Front page of Rochester (NY) Democrat&Chronicle ; "12 Miners Found Alive".
so? When the word went out in the middle of the night and the papers had to publish, what would you expect the Times to do? We believed it. The families believed. When you can tell us which announcements from the company are right and which are wrong, then you can criticize any paper for carrying the first report. Drudge is wrong on this and so are you.
No, Drudge is right that the NYT was reporting they were alive well after it was known that they were dead. You are wrong, and I am right.
Since you don't know the path and timing of the info, you are wrong and just guessing.
Dan Rather and Mary Mapes still claim the miners are alive.
Good call.
Sorry I started this thread however. It is admittedly weak, so much that I nearly started trolling it just to discredit myself (but then thought better...).
I tried to post this as a main article but I guess the freerepublic forum monitors didn't accept it, but here it is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/national/04mine.html?pagewanted=2
"Under the Bush administration, the citing of unwarrantable failures has gone down dramatically," said Tony Oppegard, a top federal mine official in the Clinton administration and a former prosecutor of mine-safety violations in Kentucky. "So to see a rash of unwarrantable failures under this administration is a telling sign of a mine with serious safety problems."
The NYT is trying to blame the Bush Administration for the mining tragedy. And not only that, but take a look at the now proven false headline:
"12 Miners Found Alive 41 Hours After Explosion"
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