You may not have known it, CNN certainly doesn't

But we lost people in a refinery explosion in Texas City. Certainly Lil' ole Texas City can't possibly compete with one single woman propped up by the religious right as a poster child for the right to life crowd, I guess the lives of 14 in Texas City don't impress the right to lifers, certainly the 10 children who died in Redlake, Mn don't carry the same weight as that single woman, perhaps the right to lifers don't want to get involved in that story because their membership is made up of NRA members, perhaps native Americans don't have the story appeal as a Terri Schiavo. The point to be made here is Americans died while they bombard us with Schiavo stories, what can possibly be the MSM's motives in covering these stories?

Seven months ago, the BP Texas City oil refinery was fined $63,000 by OSHA following an investigation into a March 30, 2004, explosion and fire at a furnace unit. That incident did not result in any deaths of injuries.

Five years ago, prior to the merger with BP, about two-dozen Amoco employees escaped injury when a fire erupted in one of the refinery’s coker units.

In 1993, the company had to pay out a $20 million to the family of a refinery worker who was killed in an explosion in April of the previous year.

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=0905c07e97091ee9

This is a case where we will see bushes tort reform in it's full force, American families will suffer while companies such as BP continue to operate unsafe refineries, which is the point after all, the republicans efforts to protect big business while the people suffer. If we continue to let the MSM control our news and it's content we will continue seeing Jesus in tortillas, weeping Mary statues and the right's talking points. What we will not see if the continuing struggle of the working class against gun violence and corporate greed.

because of CNN. No fan of Certainly Not News here, but they did report that fact.

I watched CNN this morning and thye made a big deal about 14 dead and 1 still missing. I have a big gripe with MSM but,c'mon folks, let's get a grip.

but did you hear the background information as supplied by the original poster? I think that was their point of the post.

I certainly haven't heard those details.

several explosions there and that the company had had to make settlements in the past. They didn't take the time to go into monetary details, but the March 2004 disaster was explained and they definitely painted the company in an unflattering light.

Schiavo story did the loss of lives in Texas City which have we been bombarded with garner the same coverage? Did they cover the BP press conference today? I can't speak for the local media in and around Texas City since I no longer live there. What I can say is I've seen one report on the big 3 since the explosion, I'm angered because I have friends and family in those refineries and I feel that the explosion in Texas City deserved better coverage.

I feel this is nothing more than a media black-out to protect the decision to drill in Alaska and not garner opposition for tort reform.

Of course this story did not get the same coverage as the Schiavo case. But your original post was a bit misleading. That information is out there, we're just not being bombarded with it.

I would dearly love to see the MSM handle stories more equitably and rationally and certainly in more depth. As I mentioned I'm no fan of CNN.

and this morning.

...didn't get much airplay. I put on the news to see something about the Texas explosion after seeing stuff on the web. Probably, it was terrorism & will be covered up.

You know you do have friends here.

:) everyone is saying they have seen reports on the MSM but I'm watching it again as I did yesterday and still nothing but Schiavo stories since I woke up. Did any of the big 3 cover the BP press conference?

Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.


http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/river.html

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refineries be built in the 90's - when the oil industry complained the costs of permitting new plants (based on environmental regulations) would have negative impacts on the costs of production.

Everything is Clinton's fault. <end sarcasm>

...the Ford assembly plant in Dearborn MI that took a number of lives and now the Texas refinery as well as the Wisconsin school killings, ALL three being crowded out of the MSM reporting by the Terri Schiavo case. Does anyone in the country know what has gone on in Iraq during the past seven days? Also, do the majority of U.S residents know what has been happening with China, Taiwan, North Korea, ANWR and a host of other national and international situations that could affect the lives of every single person in this country and around the world for years to come?

What a whacked out set of priorities we have in this country.

the media and the government are inextricably entwined. The vision of the Carnegie/Wilsons has become reality. An elite controls what a marginally educated mass knows and understands. My apologies if I offend anyone, but that's my opinion.

We can pass special legislation for one person's life because that doesn't cost business any money. But to actually regulate a corporation so that workers aren't killed, is a big No-No!