Every single goddam channel has this exploitative reels from last night at that mine in WV.

REEL #1: OH MY GOD THEY'RE ALIVE! THE CHURCH BELLS ARE RINGING.

REEL #2: OH MY GOD THEY'RE DEAD! OH MY GRIEF. PLEASE MSM EXPLOIT ME MORE!

It's really sad that these people went through that rollercoaster... even sadder that they keep playing that on the news. Let these poor people grieve.

1/4/2006 2:02:29 PM

They reported the news from the families like it was fact and now they keep running the families misery every 5 minutes. HOW ABOUT SOME NEWS? I dont care about some peoples misery. Thats not news.

They are all a bunch of fake-emphathizing tools like geraldo.

[Edited on January 4, 2006 at 2:06 PM. Reason : -]

1/4/2006 2:05:31 PM

oh no
a dozen people died
in one of the most dangerous jobs in the country

but hell
it keeps us distracted for a couple hours
and thats all they care about at this point in society

1/4/2006 2:06:53 PM

i bet i can name like 10 jobs that are more dangerous

1/4/2006 2:09:18 PM

I just think the exploitative methods that these news channels are running are abominable. Yes. It's very sad that these people were told that their folks were alive, then dead. But please, please, please, stop running your channel off of pure emotional exploitation.

^ Yep. See Alaskan Snow Crab fishing. I love that show on Discovery.


[Edited on January 4, 2006 at 2:10 PM. Reason : .]

1/4/2006 2:09:40 PM

After watching that show it makes you think... with all our technology is there no easier way of doin that shit?!?!?! the crab fishing i mean

1/4/2006 2:12:39 PM

yeah Alaskan Snow Crabbing is an obvious one...I was going for less obvious jobs like "Battery Acid Taster" and "Brown Recluse Urethra Inserter"

1/4/2006 2:13:04 PM

Freelance Western Journalist covering the Baghdad Bureau.

1/4/2006 2:15:36 PM

im studying for an MSM, please dont hate me

1/4/2006 2:17:07 PM

treetwista, o rly?
10?

1/4/2006 2:17:28 PM

^^^^ Brown Recluse is not that dangerous.

1/4/2006 2:45:19 PM

especially the gummy ones.

1/4/2006 2:46:22 PM

Quote :

"As of now Mining is not in the top 10 worst jobs in the US as far as total dead...they are gonna find more bodies, but for now its not even TOP 10"

-TreeTwista10

1/4/2006 2:51:04 PM

http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/13/pf/dangerousjobs/

Just pulled this up.

1/4/2006 3:05:45 PM

Quote :

"^ Yep. See Alaskan Snow Crab fishing. I love that show on Discovery."

I have seen that show!

I want to become an Alaskan crab fisher.

The job [crab season] lasts for 3 months only, and you make $60,000 during that time.

Free to do whatever you want for 9 months!

But yeah, it is an extremely dangerous job with extremely harsh conditions.

From ^

Quote :

"No wonder the Alaskan shellfish industry averaged 400 fatalities per 100,000 workers during the 1990s. "

That's nearly 4 times the fatality rate of timber cutters, which has the highest fatality rate of any occupation in the US. (Alaskan crab fishermen fall under "fishers", which has an average fatality rate of 70 per 100,000)

[Edited on January 4, 2006 at 4:33 PM. Reason : ]

1/4/2006 4:29:01 PM

holy crap

for a guy with only 43 posts, bigdawgmc just won the fuck out of this thread

1/4/2006 4:44:45 PM

its not in the top ten most dangerous jobs if you include battery acid taster and the like

hey woodfoot, did you tickle his balls while you blew his cock?

1/4/2006 4:58:10 PM