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Media failure...
TruckerT
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Is anyone else intrigued by the absence of access roads to the Welsh mine? How do they get the coal out?
Why were there no media interviews with the mine ownership/management - and no media references to the absence of such interviews?
Why were Peter Hain, and a mining professor in Durham, who never left his office, the only 'names' who appeared on TV?
Why were the families and associates of the deceased so invisible?
Why was the £20,000 benefit fund illustrated only by a Charity CarWash by the fire brigade?
How did the three escapees make contact with the emergency services? Was there a call box by the mine entrance, or did they have a signal on their mobiles?
TruckerT
Why were there no media interviews with the mine ownership/management - and no media references to the absence of such interviews?
Why were Peter Hain, and a mining professor in Durham, who never left his office, the only 'names' who appeared on TV?
Why were the families and associates of the deceased so invisible?
Why was the £20,000 benefit fund illustrated only by a Charity CarWash by the fire brigade?
How did the three escapees make contact with the emergency services? Was there a call box by the mine entrance, or did they have a signal on their mobiles?
TruckerT
According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
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One word.....culpability.Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why please read the forum rules or email the forum team if you’re still unsure - MSE ForumTeam0
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Is it me going mad or you Trucker? I swear I have read this post earlier today.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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One word.....culpability.
In such a location, it shoulda been a 5-minute job for a journalist - the questions were blindingly obvious, were they not?
I hope I am barking up the wrong tree, but if I were from outer space, this would look to me like a practice exercise for the emergency services which went tragically wrong
Actually, I would guess that this was a near-derelict mine which was intermittently visited by a few local reprobates in search of a few cheap bags of coal
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
They said the seam was a few feet tall I think so thats barely commercial. Thieves steal from the slag heaps at Tower colliery train depot, its far easier and out in the open and with a bit of wood even slag is worth having
I know because I used to walk through there everyday on 6am shifts 0 -
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »No. Not in the slightest.
Sleep tight xAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
I think the Welsh Secretary, whatsisname, dragged his *rse over there eventually. But watching News 24 you'd never have thought there was such a thing as a Welsh Assembly or a Welsh First Minister.
But there was a related complaint on Newswatch quite recently. So far as the BBC is concerned, Welsh news, especially politics, is covered by the regional news crew. They won't try to do it on the "national" news because the English audience knows nothing about Welsh politics, not even which party is in power, so there'd just be to much to explain.
This means that the national news is basically English and some foreign news. A Welsh or Scottish story will get in only if it's strong enough to qualify for English attention as a foreign story, and then it will get the same limited one-dimensional more-questions-than-answers treatment as any other foreign story.
Moreover, English presenters will have to be sent out to do pieces to camera for the English audience. If it's important enough for the English news, it's too important for the regional staff.
Of course it was always obvious what line would be taken for the English news (never takes them long to home in on a line anyway). If I'd had a drink every time they used the word close-knit I'd have been under the table in half an hour. They were telling people what to say - "do you think, in this close-knit community, neighbours will rally round and support the trapped men's families?" So did anybody ask if the trapped men actually lived locally, rather than driving to work from 10 miles away like most people nowadays? I doubt it somehow."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »No. Not in the slightest.
Other things on your mind Hamish ?30 Year Challenge : To be 30 years older. Equity : Don't know, don't care much. Savings : That's asking for ridicule.0
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