Other than the name of the submersible, the boat people on this forum will know what this picture indicates about the operation!
Posted on 06/24/2023 10:00:56 PM PDT by texas booster
The media took a brief break from its political feeding frenzies to gorge on a generally apolitical tragedy.
The story of the OceanGate sub all but took over the airwaves as the media whipped up suspense over the fate of the people on board. The people on board were however dead and had been all along.
The Navy was aware of that. So were most experts. Even Titanic director James Cameron weighed in with the obvious.
The idea, held up by the media to profit from eyeballs and clicks, that people were sitting somewhere in a stranded sub waiting to be rescued was a lie. And the media knew that it was a lie.
9 times out of 10 a mysterious disappearance is just a death that hasn’t been discovered, but it doesn’t stop the media from generating suspense and promoting a search not because it cares about the people involved, but because it cares about its bottom line. Ideally, for its purposes, the sub would never have been found and then the story could have dragged on forever. Think about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 or Madeleine McCann.
These stories tend to be detached from the lives of the viewers and so can be safely consumed as a vicarious soap opera of the “did ya know” variety.
Two decades ago media critics would have pointed that out, but the media is so far gone that it hardly seems worthwhile to decry sensationalism. The “news” can now include summaries of viral videos, including SNL routines or John Oliver and Stephen Colbert reactions. Most of it consists of editorializing or clickbait.
Sure, the media hates Trump, Republicans or anyone who doesn’t want their kids to change genders overnight, but it’s also a money machine and it’s driven by the need to generate clicks and subscriptions.
Journalism wasn’t so much corrupted by politics, as it was always corrupt and that corruption clicks neatly with its politics.
The media has always created news at least as often as it reported on it. Politics is a good disguise for the basic corruption in the system. Much like celebrities virtue signal to seem more important than they are, the media virtue signals because “exploiting pain and making up stuff for money” sounds like less of a justifiable career.
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The nearly universal howls for regulation/safety etc.....did not seem apolitical to me.
Five idiots in a home-made “submarine” built out of a recovered sewer line and outfitted with Home Depot quality gear.
There was only one window, and that was manned by the “captain”. 12,500 feet under, there is no natural light, so hopefully those Eveready flashlights duct taped to the pipe were going to blaze everything up.
Maybe there’d be a leak or two, but nothing to worry about...
The Gabby Pettito thing was also a media game to distract from the Afghanistan withdrawl.
Regulation and safety requirements are important enough ...
It is the reason WHY the media suddenly decided to promote this story and to bury a Biden story.
It does not mean that the lives of those lost are worth less, based on how the MSM decides to promote this story over others.
I’m certain an army of regulators, library of regulations should do the trick.
Just see 2008-8 federal regulating agencies and state banking and insurance regulators backed with a biblical flood of regulations couldn’t successfully regulate eight banks.
Ofc saying something is regulated when it clearly isn’t is the most often case and the worst for mankind. Oh but PS5 controller, disgruntled employee and carbon fiber and folks die diving out of perfectly functioning planes, in heavily regulated amusement parks and so many unimaginably idiotic ways on a daily basis.
I’m just posting to find out the REAL answer.
But I will take a guess at not having wheel chocks? (Hmm - probably one of those multiple choice answers with 5: All of the above.)
You’re a complete idiot
A young woman being murdered months after that fiasco is hardly a news plot
Not to mention the old white guys such as himself were excluded for woke idiots
really? I’m the idiot??
considering this article is about the media and it’s fake news, you have FAILED to see the connection and are thus the real idiot.
the FAILED Afghanistan withdrawal happened during August 2021. The “drama” of searching for her started in August 2021 until her remains were found on September 19, 2021.
so genius......
A) your timeline is way off. my timeline is way correct
B) please ask yourself: WHY did the media “follow” this case so closely? What made Gabby more special then the hundreds of other young people killed each year that she deserved 24 hour media attention. heck slick, we’re lucky if this same media will even bother to name the victims of the countless mass shootings we have every other week, but for some reason the media was GLUED to this case for weeks. In all honesty, the average American could have cared less about the case i.e. call me when you find her body. Thats why it was forgotten as soon asthe case was “closed” after Laundry killed himself.
You could not pay me enough money to get into that piece of junk get bolted in, and and just sit there on dry dock (much less going under water).
At least that looks like a modern, factory-built boat, as far as my limited boat knowledge allows. It does not look like something assembled from parts found at Sanford & Son’s junkyard.
I would rather be in a perfectly functioning, heavily regulated airplane in America or any other technically adept country than in some third world country where they hardly do any maintenance and whatever safety regulations they have can be overlooked with a bribe.
I wonder if there were some creaks and groans from the submersible while getting to lower depths. I can imagine the CEO saying to the passengers..”that’s normal, we’ve done this dive before”. CEO didn’t realize that the last “success” is no guarantee for the future.
Lol, everything’s political now.
Give us a hint.
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