Comments on: Media Screws Up Sago Mine Disaster

By: Hazel Hazel

Hazel Hazel — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:39:29 +0000

I wasn’t insinuating that you were blaming CNN……totally the contrary actually. I agreed with what you said. Poor judgements were made based flimsy information. No malicious intent on anyone’s part but there are certainly people responsible for what happened.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:13:51 +0000

I deleted a comment because it linked to a post that was meant to be funny, but that was insensitive. I don’t like to make light of death at all in a situation like this, so that comment has no place here. I also felt that, since it was so out of context and against the grain of my post, instead of a useful comment, it was an attempt to promote that person’s own blog. Thanks for reading, though.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:48:05 +0000

I could have written this same post…. how awful that people didn’t get the news RIGHT…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:05:45 +0000

I believe that CNN did not mean to deceive or trick anybody. I am not blaming them for the misinformation — just for running with it so haphazardly. According to the story I linked in my post, we do know that only about 20 minutes after the wrong information had been spread, the truth was known but withheld — for at least three hours. It was not shared with family, friends, or the media. Why? Because officials “wanted to have all the information right first.” Hmm, couldn’t CNN and other news organizations have followed this same thinking?

By: Hazel Hazel

Hazel Hazel — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:48:14 +0000

Well, the newspapers didn’t hold up and many printed erroneous headlines. There are so many people to blame for the second tragedy of misinformation and yet none to blame. No one intended to deceive or trick these family members. While I agree that the media shares in the liablity of this horrendous turn of events, the outcome remains the same: 12 men lost their lives and each of them and their families desperately need our prayers, as does the sole survivor and his family. I will leave it to others to invariably place blame and liability for all the injustices that occurred in that West Virginia town.