Miner's Memorial to be Protested???

[BC_MoM]

THAT is horse crap.....

Corinna, it wasn't the press that goofed up on how many were dead.

[Karen]

There are always groups that are willing to exploit any situation to their own purposes. The best we can do is ignore them entirely.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Well, I don't know what "god" they believe in but it sure isn't the one I do!

[Corinna]

It was the press listening in on a closed conversation and drew the wrong conclutions and ran to beat the others and it snowballed from there.

[Cubby'sMom]

I can't believe that! No memorial for the poor souls from the mine, as well as the victims of 9/11?! Outrageous, but Karen is right. the best we can do is ignore them, therefore we won't be feeding into them.

[moosmom]

Corinna,

It wasn't the news media's fault. It was the stupid suits at the mining company who, after finding out the miners were not alive, failed to alert the media until after they went to press.

I am a harsh critic of the news media, having worked for a newspaper. But they are not to be blamed in this instance.

As far as those idiot protestors are concerned, I hope they get NO media attention whatsoever so the families can grieve in peace.

[Lady's Human]

MM-

I listened to a radio interview with one of the execs from the corp. They were upset with the release of false info that the miners were alive (as Corinna said, the media was listening in on the communications and ran with a story from a garbled transmission rather than get confirmation), but could not see any tactful way to correct the information until the were absolutely certain of what was going on. They admit they blew it, but are arguing (IMHO correctly) that the media blew it by running with an unconfirmed source.

The twits who are protesting the funerals have changed tacks to other than military funerals as there is a group of bikers who have organized to block their protests at military funerals.