I, Me, Mine
So CNN ghoul, Anderson Cooper, is back at it and is once again as erect as Charlie Sheen at a Sorority party. This time the 'disaster du jour' takes Anderson to Upshur County in West Virginia, where twelve miners were recently killed this week in an explosion at the local Sago Mine.
Originally, the twelve miner’s where originally reported as having survived the tragedy to anxiously awaiting friends and family members at the nearby Baptist church. For three whole hours, family members and townspeople rejoiced over the miracle only be informed later that the original message was wrong – in fact, eleven of the miner’s had been found dead - the last miner still fighting for his life.
Oops. That’s got to be the communication fuck-up of the century!
The company, International Coal Group (ICG), said it knew within 20 minutes that initial reports all the men had survived were incorrect, but said it was not clear at that stage how many were dead. So now the media witch-hunt has begun; who is responsible for this clusterfuck? Was it the rescue workers; was it the rescue command center; was it the media; was it the clergy members at the church? Who sucks at taking phone messages?
Ben Hatfield, president of ICG, said: "What happened is that through stray cell phone conversations it appears that this miscommunication from the rescue team underground to the command center was picked up by various people. That information spread like wildfire because it had come from the command center but it was bad information."
Oops.
I find that explanation a little hard to believe considering that recent Nokia commercials seem to indicate that today’s cell phones are capable of being consumed, digested and being shat out by a four ton Tyrannosaurus Rex and still have its ‘Kumbiya’ ring tone heard clearly and distinctly. You can't squeak out a fart anywhere on the planet without it being picked up on someone's high-clarity cell phone somewhere.
That’s mighty convenient. Just blame it on the cell phones; certainly not the dumb-asses using them.
With all of todays available technology why are we still squeezing men into such extremely unsafe mines anyways? We can build robots to maneuver through dessert terrains, vacuum entire Manhattan apartments, and navigate over alien planet surfaces, but we can't design one to mine coal in dangerous underground mine shafts to save human lives?
Originally, the twelve miner’s where originally reported as having survived the tragedy to anxiously awaiting friends and family members at the nearby Baptist church. For three whole hours, family members and townspeople rejoiced over the miracle only be informed later that the original message was wrong – in fact, eleven of the miner’s had been found dead - the last miner still fighting for his life.
Oops. That’s got to be the communication fuck-up of the century!
The company, International Coal Group (ICG), said it knew within 20 minutes that initial reports all the men had survived were incorrect, but said it was not clear at that stage how many were dead. So now the media witch-hunt has begun; who is responsible for this clusterfuck? Was it the rescue workers; was it the rescue command center; was it the media; was it the clergy members at the church? Who sucks at taking phone messages?
Ben Hatfield, president of ICG, said: "What happened is that through stray cell phone conversations it appears that this miscommunication from the rescue team underground to the command center was picked up by various people. That information spread like wildfire because it had come from the command center but it was bad information."
Oops.
I find that explanation a little hard to believe considering that recent Nokia commercials seem to indicate that today’s cell phones are capable of being consumed, digested and being shat out by a four ton Tyrannosaurus Rex and still have its ‘Kumbiya’ ring tone heard clearly and distinctly. You can't squeak out a fart anywhere on the planet without it being picked up on someone's high-clarity cell phone somewhere.
That’s mighty convenient. Just blame it on the cell phones; certainly not the dumb-asses using them.
With all of todays available technology why are we still squeezing men into such extremely unsafe mines anyways? We can build robots to maneuver through dessert terrains, vacuum entire Manhattan apartments, and navigate over alien planet surfaces, but we can't design one to mine coal in dangerous underground mine shafts to save human lives?
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