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NYTimes blames Bush for miner tragedy
In an editorial piece today that should surprise no one, the New York Times chose to play the blame game with the horrible miner tragedy in West Virginia where 12 of 13 miners were killed in a coal mine blast accident. The NYT:
Political figures from both parties have long defended and profited from ties to the coal industry. Whether or not that was a factor in the Sago mine’s history, the Bush administration’s cramming of important posts in the Department of the Interior with biased operatives from the coal, oil and gas industry is not reassuring about general safety in the mines. Steven Griles, a mining lobbyist before being appointed deputy secretary of the interior, devoted four years to rolling back mine regulations and then went back to lobbying for the industry.
But what the NYT does not tell you is that, since 2001, fatalities from mine accidents have dropped almost 50%. BizzyBlog has the lowdown. Make sure to check out the chart he created from the data that he found here on the Labor Dept’s website. Good detective work, Tom. He writes:
Contrary to what The Times would have you believe, the trend has been favorable (“reassuring” if you will) for many years, especially the past four, where there has been a near-50% drop in fatalities. In fact, these results support the contention that staffing Interior with people who actually know their industry has led to greater safety.
Yep.
Shame shame on the NYT.
More: Varifrank shares more stats on coal miner deaths.
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“NYTimes blames Bush for miner tragedy”
Well! Color me surprised!
What a bunch of Tinklepants!
Do you mean to say that the coal mining industry isn’t going to the Nokia Filthy Capitalist Pig Death Bowl this year?
Darn.
I am not suprised.
The NYT has shown an all out offensive in the Bush “GOTCHA” game.
I have not known one man, one Republican President, can be the cause and blame for everything in the world, from mining accidents to Global Warming. But if the NYT has its say, it will pin everything and anything on President Bush.
It is sad to tell you the truth. To see how much a news agency/paper can fall in its hate of one man.
You’re darn right its Bush’s fault!
I haven’t been able to trust him, nor should you, since he killed that nice mr lincoln and set off the war that was not so civil!
Don’t get me started on his inability to account for his whereabouts on dec 7 ‘41.
im going to keep my eye on that guy!
p.s. sorry Sister, i just cant take the NYT seriously anymore.
In a cold and statistical fashion, could we say that:
Mortality rate in coal mines in America is surprisingly low? The downward trend makes me feel optimistic, despite the trajic accident. Data from Frank Warner’s site.
That spirit, though, was not present earlier this year when the Bush administration proposed cutting the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by $7 million. The administration defended the 6-percent reduction by noting the number of coal mines has been decreasing. Yet coal mining fatalities have gone up for three years in a row. There were 42 mining fatalities in 2001, 29 in 1998. In March, Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, maintained the funding cut would cause a 25 percent reduction in the government’s mine-safety inspection workforce. As of March, 612 federal mine inspectors were responsible for enforcing safety regulations in 25 states, and there were signs the system has not been functioning well.
your statistics don’t show the decrease in the mining workforce overall. mining accidents per the amount of mining workers has gone up.
Please post a link, rather than the entire piece. Thank you. –ST
“mining accidents per the amount of mining workers has gone up.”
That is not true.
First look at this LINK
Obviously, the number of employed miners decreased between 1990 and 2000, but if you look at Bizzy’s chart you’ll see that some years between 1990-2000 the number of miners killed actually went up, even as the number of miners employed was (obviously) descreasing.
You guys will blame Bush for anything. Unreal.
You tell ‘em Sister.
Facts never matter to some though.
Well, duh, Baklava. Facts are meaningless social constructs within the patriarchiacal narrative. Or something. Not really sure.
But facts mean nothing next to feelings. Facts are only for people who do not sufficiently care. There are things you know to be true regardless of what some ridiculous bit of so called “reality” might suggest (I wish there was an emoticon for air quotes so you could tell them from real ones). And the truth is that Smirkychimp W. McHitlerburton is evil, I tell you! Eeeeeeevil! Don’t look at his face, he’ll kill you with his gaze!
Arrrrgh! Snakes! Snakes! My duck is on fire!