so, i've been following the WV miner situation over the past couple of days... around midnight, got the cnn breaking news email sent to me saying that 12 miners were alive and one was dead...
i fell asleep around 2am watching cnn... and for some reason, i woke up about 40 minutes later.
how insane...
watching anderson cooper and he's chatting with sanjay gupta about hypothermia or something - just filler chatter - then all of a sudden some womand and her kids come running down saying that the mining company were "liars" and that only one miner has survived.
unbelievable.
cooper was like "what?!" and stunned... i, being all groggy from waking up, thought it was just a hallucination or a dream that i was dealing with.
but no.
and, in watching the press conference, the president of the mining company - ben hatfield - read the statement and answered questions - part of me felt bad for him, but they knew that the news at 11:45 last night was not confirmed. and the reason he gave for not telling the families - or the media, for that matter - that the news was unconfirmed.... well, he said that the families were already on an emotional rollercoaster and didn't want to dampen their euphoria.
come on.
i would rather have my "euphoria dampened" rather than being led on for 3 bloody hours thinking that all was well and my family was still in tact.
3 frigging hours.
even the governor of WV was out there around midnight giving the thumbs up and saying that it was a miracle - and at the moment now, around 3:45am, he's on there backtracking saying "well, i turned to my detachment and asked if the news was confirmed and they said no, it wasn't" ---
this is ridiculous. at the moment there is no actual finger-pointing and yet everyone is passing the buck.
i'm gonna take some cherry-flavoured nyquil and go back to bed... disgusted.
(no, i don't have a cold. it's the sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, so you can rest because you're flabbergasted medicine.)
