Mine Disaster ; Another media feeding frenzy

[Kevin Trotter]

Unless you too have been trapped underground , you have no doubt seen the saga of 9 coal miners who were trapped when they struck an uncharted underground river. I really thought that after 24 hours there was little chance they would be still alive. Much to our suprise they were all found in relative good health after a herculean rescue effort. As this happened in my "backyard" (pgh area) we have seen a great deal of coverage during and now after the rescue.

Now here it is Monday morning and we are inundated with interviews of thankful family members, courageous doctors and nurses and the unflappable work crews who made it all happen....again. I mean did someone else get trapped? aren't they out now. Do we really need to see pictures of the cranes that hoisted them up? of the empty luncboxes they carried , interviews with their uncle Larry who wasn't even on the site? This is the kind of crap that makes me hate the media. Sticking a microphone in someones face and asking them "Are you happy to be alive?" What do they expect them to say? "No I kinda wished I had drowned down there instead?"

Overkill. We are beaten over the head with the story and are powerless to stop it. Do we really need a "closer look at 6 and 11" or interviews

replayed on the national news and all the local broadcasts for the next three days? Am I the only one who feels this way? If I'm out of line let me know.

[ 07-29-2002, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: Race Bannon IV ]

[CommanderJohnson]

The media is really annoying. I even found it annoying after 9/11. They kept saying the same thing over and over again, and when the anchors got tired, they replayed the plane footage over, and over, and over again. We got the message, why don't you just put up a piece of cardboard over the camera stating the info. Then the whole Jon Benet Ramsey thing that kept getting beaten into the ground, and those bombers....McVeigh and the UniBomber. They kept showing footage of "manhunt continuing" then the next day "manhunt continuing" even though they didn't know anything ADDITIONAL from the first day. Then there are the STUPID news stories, like yesterday I heard something about a cat's life being saved. A CAT!! Why don't they start doing meaningful stories other than a CAT's life being saved. And another thing, they give airtime to morons. If they are going to get statements from people about ANYTHING, be sure they can talk DECENT English.

"Wes all down here afraid of all thems and we hope that the police can do theirs jobs"

GET SOMEONE WHO CAN SPEAK!!!!

[Charles Lindsey]

Down here we had our first set of sextuplets born to a local family. They have gotten corporate gifts, interviews, parties honoring them, and a ceremony giving them six keys to the city.

While the miners have been on the national news these sextuplets have been on air aobut a week.

Oh well, life sucks then ya die.

[Unforgiven_Killer]

SHUT UP! SHUT UP!..lol (j/j)

Thats all Ive heard for the past 3 days here...I live like 20 mile from where this all happened and I keep hearing it on the tv,Radio,and now on most fourms I got to..lol

The media will milk this for weeks....like one guy on a local radio station said.. "Its great these men have lived but how long will it be till we see a movie or TV special?"

[Guest Grayfox]

youre not alone race... when my TV is on its usually on ESPN, so i tend not to watch too much news. however, i did see the story about this incident, and a few hours later after i flipped thru the channels, it was on... again, being replayed over and over and over...

i cant stand that crap... i think we got the message the first time. no need stuffing our faces into it again and again.

gulf war, somolia, haiti, bosnia, 9/11, oklahoma city, they just kept rubbing our faces in it like you do some dog that craps on the floor.

maybe thats why i dont watch that much tv anymore...

[CommanderJohnson]

We wouldn't have this problem if more people didn't LIKE WATCHING THE SAME THING 5000 TIMES!!!