The Press sucks

In light of the Coal Miner tragedy that recently happened, it has been suggested that the press has illegal wire taps at their disposal to infiltrate cell phone conversations (yours and mine) for their own usage in an attempt to generate stories before their competitors. I knew the press always sucked.

And I'm sure there are well-grounded human beings who are in the industry to be the best reporter, editor, anchor, etc, etc, w/o crossing the line. But after what just happened, the industry just proves what a crock of s**t they are overall, and afterall for that matter.

If what I said is true in the first paragraph, it's also a direct violation of the first amendment.

Anyone agree? 😠

Not really. A lot of the blame has to go to the executives/owners of the coal mine and their handling of the rescue efforts.

* waiting for a disaster to "naturally" occur in this country without an epidemic of outside blame*

Originally posted by botankus
* waiting for a disaster to "naturally" occur in this country without an epidemic of outside blame*

Hooooooold on just a second. I was referring to the time period in which the family members thought the miners were alive as something deserving blame. The disaster itself was obviously an accident.

There was still blame over the course of the event, then.

In light of the Coal Miner tragedy that recently happened, it has been suggested that the press has illegal wire taps at their disposal to infiltrate cell phone conversations (yours and mine) for their own usage in an attempt to generate stories before their competitors.

If you want to live decently, then you should all unite and put up a government 'for the people by the people!' 😉

Actually all of the blame lies with the owners of the coal mine. The press had absolutely NOTHING to do with the false information being given to the loved ones. They just reported on it as soon as the loved ones were told. Get your facts straight before you make an accusation.

Did they? No official announement was made at any point, which is why some media outlets avoided the mistake.

Actually it WAS an official announcement,. The misinformation came DIRECTLY from the company itself. Was their screwup and no one elses. And then they sat on the misinformation for a full 3 hours after they found out they had screwed up. I did however find it surprising that they admitted they were totally to blame. Alot of companies would have tried to bury it or pass the buck.

Well, my info could be incorrect, Jedi Priestess. But, I did hear the controversial story break on CNN....alleging the press may have done illegal wire tapping to get the info. It's fishy is all I'll say.

Then why would the company go public and assume all the blame? I think you may be mistaken.

That may be Jedi Priestess. However, there were several notable newspapers that carried the message of 12 miners who were alive. You have to ask yourself why did this happen? Wouldn't it be logical to wait for sure until they had all the facts before production commenced. What would motivate one paper to print the story first over the other? At 2 am (guessing on time here), when printing processes are shutting down to get the last articles out for the next day's paper, why wouldn't they just wait an extra day?....instead of printing that there were 12 miners recovered alive? The truth finally realized, about 12 of the 13 being dead broke out after production of the newspapers had already happened? You may be right, but after seeing how the press handled their hand, even if someone else was responsible for giving the accurate info combined that CNN did a brief story about press allegations, makes this guy quite suspicious.

OK on the news that night, news of the mistake didnt break until around 2 am. Im assuming that the newspapers either A. Had alredy printed the wrong info or B. were irresponsible here. Im speaking of the television media tho. I confess I dont know how the print media handeled it.

Yeah, the media didn't have anything to do with the mistake. I actually wuz watching cnn when the story broke out, it was a bunch a people telling Anderson Cooper that 12 miners were alive. And i thnk i wasnt until 3 am or so that they found out that, that wasnt the case.

Originally posted by overlord
Yup, America places money above morals and values. That's the reason everybody went there in the first place. 🙂

If you want to live decently, then you should all unite and put up a government 'for the people by the people!' 😉

Yeah I forgot the rest of the world lives on altruism.......lol.........the media most of the time does suck doesn't matter where or who produces it unless its me cuz I state only the truth the HOLE truth and nothing BUTT the truth.

Well, at least one press source that was careful and did not make the mistake have directly cited the lack of an official announcement as their reason for caution.

The information might have sourced from the area the company was working, but they did not actually issue it.

Originally posted by BobbyD
At 2 am (guessing on time here), when printing processes are shutting down to get the last articles out for the next day's paper

In the UK at least, 'tomorrow's' paper is in some shops as early as 22:00 the night before.

i think the media is to blame for many things, this isn't one of them. sure they spread bullshit lies, they harras people constantly and are damn annoying, but this was an accident. the company wore the blame for giving the wrong information, the media had nothing to do with it.

Yup, I agree! The media just needs to leave these people the **** alone though!

Originally posted by tabby999
i think the media is to blame for many things, this isn't one of them. sure they spread bullshit lies, they harras people constantly and are damn annoying, but this was an accident. the company wore the blame for giving the wrong information, the media had nothing to do with it.

exactly