Our Shitty Press Corps

I do hope that our shitty media, especially say, "The Today Show" can manage between their coffee and chit chat about TomKat can discuss the whys of the West Virginia mining disaster and corporate and political malfeasance, the sadness of 12 families, and less on "the miracle miner" or some such.

But I'm not optimistic.

The print media, to some extent, are doing their jobs.

Time and again over the past four years, federal mining inspectors documented the same litany of problems at central West Virginia's Sago Mine: mine roofs that tended to collapse without warning. Faulty or inadequate tunnel supports. A dangerous buildup of flammable coal dust...

...In the past two years, the mine was cited 273 times for safety violations, of which about a third were classified as "significant and substantial," according to documents compiled by the Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Many were for problems that could contribute to accidental explosions or the collapse of mine tunnels, records show.