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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
My main focus is on the live television news reports that went on for hours without any confirmation whatsoever that the miners had survived. I switched between CNN, MSNBC, and Fox and not one of those channels spoke with any officials during their hours of reporting.
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again, I'm not excusing it... I'm just feeling argumentative today...
did th e officials make themselves available to the press? How forthcoming were they with information? I'd imagine not very - given all the citations that this mine has - they'd want to do all they could to put this in the very best possible light...
If the media isn't given anything to work with - then is faced with 24 hour coverage... they have to do something -- heaven forbid they have dead air.. the advertisers wouldn't like that...
the media -- as we know - is all about the almighty dollar..