Oh how I long for a day when the major media would focus on reporting major news. But no such luck in modern America.
Because a dozen coal miners got killed a couple of weeks ago, “miners trapped” gets top billing pretty much across the board. Never mind that the “news” today is about two people you”ve never heard of in a country of 300 million people.
CNN, Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, MSNBC and USA Today – all that I bothered to check – all have the trapped-miners story as the lead of their online versions right now.
If these organizations would like to spend their energy telling us about the unknown fate of two random Americans, might I suggest they pick up one of the following stories found on Google News this morning:
- From the Virginian-Pilot: Two are dead and two others are missing in boating accidents off the Atlantic coast.
- From the Modesto Bee: Two are missing after a pickup truck plunged into a river.
- From the Police Blotter of Boyle County, Kentucky: Police visited Danville Cinemas looking for two missing juveniles (you have to scroll down to the entry for 9:08 p.m. on Jan 15.
- From the Billings Gazette: Miss Montana”s missing wardrobe has turned up.
Any of these stories would be perfect for the major media to pick up, as each has the exact same impact on the lives of Americans as the trapped miners story they are currently fixated on.
[editor"s note: To its credit, the AJC has a picture of some smokin-hot girl as the top story online right now:
I think she"s Miss Georgia or something.]
