I was right about the mining accidents and deaths, even when I didn't know the actual numbers. Because, mining related accidents and deaths were obvious to me. If there were a lot of death, media wouldn't talk about it. But, since there are so few, media sensationalizes the mining news as if mining incidents are somehow more worthy news than other news. The fact is, mining accidents are rare, and that’s why the Main Stream Media, ABC/CBS/NBC hype stories up.
MSBNC’s Mining Story by Rachel Maddow
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-PTgbYa58M ].
"… it's really really really important..,” says Rachel Maddow. Everybody knows risk of mining, even with those risks; deaths and injuries are very low compared to other activities. She is merely hyping up the story to make a story for her show. Here, she has no perspectives. Her viewers left to think that mining operators are cruel and they want to kill workers to make extra money, and they violate these safety rules on purpose to save money. This is further from the truth. Mining has gotten safer every year. In 1940s, there were about 1,500 deaths with 70,000 injuries due to mining. In year 2006, there were 69 deaths and 11,800 injuries. Mining industry is doing everything they can to minimize human casualty and loss due to such incidents. Here she is talking about mining operators are some uncaring villain. Mining companies are making work place safer not because they are good people versus bad people. Incidents at work place are like a friction force that needs to be taken out, it’s a simple math. N + Ff = W, Normal Force + Friction Force = Work. Extra work here is a cost in terms of time/effort/energy. Unlike what she is presenting here, the fact says otherwise. You can't have deaths and accidents going down such rate while same time talking about it as if it is a death trap. In fact, mining is safe than most activities. It’s not a pretty job but a lot of jobs aren’t pretty either: Crab fishing, farming, day care, etc..
Comparison
I wonder whether Rachel Maddow has done story about bicycling, alcohol drinking, or sex related deaths and injuries. 240 people die every year due to construction related accidents. Approximately, 700 people die due to recreational bicycle riding every year with 52,000 injuries. Over 20,000 people die over sex related behaviors. Over 100,000 die due to alcohol consumption related accidents. In perspective, mining is far safer than other economic and none economic activities
Here, she cites all these violations, .. then what? These violations are something that happens. People get traffic tickets all the time. Like Fannie and Freddie, all this happened while there were regulations like the BP gulf incidents? After this report, what is Rachel going to do? Nothing... she will go on to another report targeting another company to fill up her stories. Rachel Maddow is being nothing more than a character of the drive-by-media.
What is drive-by-media?
The Drive-By Media. It's a like a drive-by shooter except the microphones are the guns, and they drive into groups of people they report a bunch of totally wrong libelous stuff about people. They create a giant mess. Sometimes people get really harmed. They go out and try to destroy people's careers. Then they get in the convertible, head on down the road and do it all over again.
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Robbery in convenient stores
[http://www.crimedoctor.com/convenience1.htm]
[http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/173772.pdf]
[http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/Resources/Research/Pages/ConvenienceStoreSecurity.aspx]
[http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/violence/]
[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1038/is_n2_v38/ai_16793706/]
[ homicide : http://www.athenaresearch.com/research/bls_workplace_violence_2006.pdf ]
Construction
[http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/construction/]
Mining
[http://www.msha.gov/mshainfo/factsheets/mshafct2.htm]
[http://www.wvminesafety.org/wvcoalfacts.htm]
Bicycle
[http://www.edgarsnyder.com/bicycle/accident-statistics.html]
[http://www.bicyclinginfo.org/facts/statistics.cfm]
[http://www.anapolschwartz.com/practices/bike/bicycle-accident-statistics.asp]
Alcohol & Sex
[http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30]
[http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_249.pdf]
[nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNotes/2006/810686.pdf]
[http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/feb/17/un-warns-rise-alcohol-related-deaths/]
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