The latest American tragedy, the West Virginia mining disaster, is more of an American media tragedy. Countless media outlets went live with reports of 12 survivors. They ran and ran with this until it was found out that only 1 survived, and 12 were dead.

There is not much to say except this, the media got it wrong. When you don’t check your facts and get corroboration, only bad things are bound to happen. At least in election year 2000, when the media screwed up the Presidential election results, at least that only affected a couple of jerks. This snafu affected the lives of dozens of people who were directly involved with the situation.

This article was written by Bryan Los on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 at 11:21 AM and is filed under In The News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.