{"id":678,"date":"2006-01-04T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2006-01-04T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T21:29:00","slug":"the-mine-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-mine-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"The mine debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The West Virginia mine story<\/a> is awful. Watching Geraldo Rivera’s shtick is even awfuler. I gave that moron a bye back during Katrina because I felt that his pathetic sensationalism was necessary to wake people up to what was really going on, but now I feel just dirty for ever being a Geraldo apologist. America, I’m sorry. You too, Canada. <\/p>\n

And I’m sorry for the shoddy coverage the print media offered of this story. Look<\/a>. Every front page: “12 miners found alive!” I know the Anchorage Daily News<\/em> can’t expect to get a local beat reporter down to West Virginia to do his own reporting, but honestly. I think the AP is going to need to answer a lot of questions about how this happened. I know everyone<\/em> was duped — print, TV, the families, etc. — and that we should probably blame officials for miscommunicating (the state’s governor spread the misinformation that came from the rescue workers, for Pete’s sake), but I swear, it’s the “Dewey defeats Truman” shit like this that makes the media hard to defend to people who are itching to believe that we can’t do anything<\/em> right. To be fair, now it will be the AP that spreads the correct info, and I’m not blaming the AP for spreading false info, since our stories are only as good as the bullshit fed to us by people in the know <\/em>(at least in situations like this one where it’s virtually impossible for reporters to be in the know<\/em>). <\/p>\n

It’s such a frustrating situation and those miners’ families have all my sympathy. I’m hoping the press will do a good job cleaning up this mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The West Virginia mine story is awful. Watching Geraldo Rivera’s shtick is even awfuler. I gave that moron a bye back during Katrina because I felt that his pathetic sensationalism was necessary to wake people up to what was really going on, but now I feel just dirty for ever being a Geraldo apologist. America, I’m sorry. You too, Canada. And I’m sorry for the shoddy coverage the print media offered of this story. Look.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-aW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}