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Originally Posted by shakran
If by "without any confirmation whatsoever" you mean "gee only a representative of the company told everyone the miners were alive and the news reported what he said since that was the best info they had to go on, and it's pretty understandable that the reporters weren't exactly able to go down in the mine and check the men for themselves" then I suppose I agree with you.
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Shakran,
I don't want to get into a pissing contest with you because I respect your opinion a lot, but here is somewhere where we have to disagree.
From what I've seen, here is how it went down: One of the rescuers radioed up that they had found the miners. The person who received this message then called the Baptist church where the families had congregated with the message that they were all alive. The church then began ringing their bells. The television news reporters went with this. Remember, the mining company made no statement whatsoever for 3 hours. The reports we were hearing on the television news came from church bells ringing after someone called someone reporting what they heard from someone else. The reports we were seeing were based solely on the church bells ringing and the family members celebrating.
Regardless of what journalists would like us to believe, they reported rumors as fact. Not once during this reporting did any media outlet that I watched report that what they heard was unconfirmed.
This is what I meant by "without any confirmation whatsoever."