Posted on 01/05/2006 5:22:53 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
Posted on Thu, Jan. 05, 2006
Sago Mine Tragedy Editorial | Jubilation, then despair
Some quotes from today's editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer: As the nation mourns with them, the mine's owner, along with state and federal officials, need to take responsibility for what went wrong.
Here is the "pull ouote" that sits prominantly in the middle of the "editorial" inbold type:
Officials from the International Coal Group must bear the anger of families who needlessly went for three hours believing a false report that their loved ones had survived.
It's understandable that the air was thick with rumors and garbled information as tired rescuers toiled to find the 13 men (one survived) who were trapped after an explosion Monday.
It should become standard industry policy for mine owners or federal mine agency officials to squelch rumors and give families current information, even if it is inconclusive. If they didn't know for certain the miners were alive, they should have told the families that - immediately.
Most of the violations that inspectors found at the Sago Mine were minor.
But federal inspectors issued 21 citations last year concerning an accumulation of coal dust, which is combustible. That build-up must be part of this accident's investigation.
So, too, should the federal mine safety agency's enforcement record. As a nation and a communitymourn, authorities need to take responsibility for what went wrong in this accident.
Note that the Inquirer is willfully blind to it's own presenace, it's own professional standards and the fact that they bear responsibility too.
Without determining the cause, the Inquirer has already settled on government as the answer.
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Whoever is making that call needs to be strung up.
What was said?
Newspaper editors are very good at preaching to the rest of. After all, they're infallible and everybody else is just stupid.
Is there a link to it?
What did they say? I didn't hear it.
Supposed to be on TV tonight. ABC....not sure what program.
A Communist rag-sheet!
Well obviously there was a miscommunication somewhere. The person that got it wrong probably feels horrible though.
Philadelphia Inquirer. They are a blind and stubborn lot. They print what justifies their bias and preconceptions. They bury the facts which don't fit that template. They're doing that here.
There are numerous factual errors in this editorial. The Inquirer is not merely as bad as most of the MSM. It is worse, because of it's hard-wired bias. For a much more honest and accurate discussion of what happened in Sago, click below.
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The MSM lied.....
The man clearly states that the miners are alive, I guess. When the dispatcher up top asks him to confirm, the man confirms.
What more could have been done, other than wait for the men to reach the surface.
If you remember, the first reports from Quecreek came on the strength of tapping from the trapped miners.
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