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Welsh Mining Tragedy: Is It Just Me...
..who feels there is a lot more being made of it in comparison to other similar events? I don't wish to sound cynical or de-sensitised but when this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...es-mid-wales-13153839
tragedy happened it barely got a mention. There was certainly not the amount of media coverage as for the miners, whose loved ones are obviously devastated and understandably so.
I could understand the level of coverage had the death toll been greater but I'm just perplexed at the media frenzy/circus that appears to have swamped this tragedy. One report on the BBC last night even focussed on a bag of rubbish from meals that had been left by rescue teams who had been working at the site.
Or, as I asked, is it just me?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...es-mid-wales-13153839
tragedy happened it barely got a mention. There was certainly not the amount of media coverage as for the miners, whose loved ones are obviously devastated and understandably so.
I could understand the level of coverage had the death toll been greater but I'm just perplexed at the media frenzy/circus that appears to have swamped this tragedy. One report on the BBC last night even focussed on a bag of rubbish from meals that had been left by rescue teams who had been working at the site.
Or, as I asked, is it just me?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This tragedy also sticks in my mind for some reason,(I think it was because I'd driven past it some weeks prior) yet it barely got a mention. I know it's a while back, but it got nowhere near the coverage of the mining incident:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3084859.stm
Are the media trying to over-sensationalise such events lately?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3084859.stm
Are the media trying to over-sensationalise such events lately?
i dont mean to sound horrible,and these deaths are tragic,but years ago when the coal industry was thriving there were accidents that used to claim dozens of lives per incident ie cave ins,explosions and the like,i guess its just that the mining industry is nearly obselete now in the uk that any tragedy is going to be headline news...rip to the brave men of the latest accident and my thoughts are with the families..god bless...
The main reason is that the media were hoping for a long drawn out tense affair with a bit of doubt about whether the miners were alive or not. Whilst I have every sympathy with the families of those that perished, people die in tragic circumstances every day and they don't try to organise public collections etc. The whole media thing just puts me off.
annie, that's the way folks are down here, they will always try to help families of lost miners, that's the way it always has worked years ago when these tragedies happened much more often!....they have always tried to help the families who have lost their bread winner!.......the tradition lives on in the South Wales Valleys!..........Long may it reign!.....
It's not 'just you', Phil.
Fishing and farming are both more dangerous than mining in this country but accidents within those industries often hardly get mentioned in the news.
However I can see that mining (and sometimes fishing) disasters provide better news stories for editors than, say, farming accidents do. Firstly there can be more victims from a single accident and secondly (because of the search for survivors) the story is 'ongoing' over an extended period, rather than an isolated incident.
Fishing and farming are both more dangerous than mining in this country but accidents within those industries often hardly get mentioned in the news.
However I can see that mining (and sometimes fishing) disasters provide better news stories for editors than, say, farming accidents do. Firstly there can be more victims from a single accident and secondly (because of the search for survivors) the story is 'ongoing' over an extended period, rather than an isolated incident.
Agree there totally flip. My stepdad was a miner for 37 years years and his grandfather died in this local tragedy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresford_disaster
so I'm not exactly ignorant of such incidents!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresford_disaster
so I'm not exactly ignorant of such incidents!
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