This is fine but we can't have nuclear reactors.
Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
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Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How are the mainstream media dealing with it? Apparently CNN reported on this 8 days ago[0] (when it happened). Fox is running coverage live as we speak[1]. If there is any evidence of a cover-up, it has yet to be presented. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-... [1] https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-train-derailment-prompts-wat...
So the live coverage from Fox is 8 days late, right?
no, it's 8 contiguous days of coverage.
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#53Eerily similar to the recent Netflix movie "White Noise": https://www.netflix.com/title/81317320
I can't stop thinking about this.
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#54I sure have heard a lot about how I haven't heard about it.
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#55Evidently this briefly hit the mass tv news cycle then went silent... This deserves wide scale attention... Pollution and toxic destruction needs to trigger a commensurate fine both for clean up and punitive damages sufficient to motivate big business to proactively avoid these events Looks like media has been told to drop this story... Or even worse to self censor anything outside it's allowed news topic criteria
What media? I saw it on CNN today. Fox News's website has multiple stories about this from the last hour. The only place where the train stuff seems underrepresented is on some of the big subreddits (which are echo chambers already, so not surprising)
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#56Oh, in fact, I have heard of it, and all the coverage I've heard is people grimly telling me about how horrible it is and how no one is covering how terribly horrible it is.
What I haven't seen is any actual reporting. You know, talking to an expert, someone who has any actual knowledge about what steps are being taken, what the threat is, what steps should be taken but aren't, etc.
But hey, those ominous black clouds sure make for good clickbait.
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#57Evidently this briefly hit the mass tv news cycle then went silent... This deserves wide scale attention... Pollution and toxic destruction needs to trigger a commensurate fine both for clean up and punitive damages sufficient to motivate big business to proactively avoid these events Looks like media has been told to drop this story... Or even worse to self censor anything outside it's allowed news topic criteria
If you open your eyes you can see more clearly. This story has been covered extensively
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#58I see a million tweets on Twitter about this story that "I haven't heard of."
You are able to consume and digest millions of tweets? You are a wonder!
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#59I've heard about this, but it is surprising how little coverage it gets compared to other things. If you were to tally up how much airtime each news story gets, plotted against the general tone of the coverage, you'd probably come up with something resembling the news room agenda (you'd also have to weigh it against other stories developing at around the same time). I have to wonder why a story of environmental disas…
It is pretty odd. One hopes the story will get picked up and disseminated more widely and create a necessity for authorities to react.
So far we have not heard from the secretary of transportation/
Biden has not bothered to shuffle himself over there to appease the population with platitudes about his deep interest in the safety of the population and worry for the environment and how he's going to hold those at fault "accountable" -che sera sera, as they say.
So far, crickets... but quite disconcerting is the apparent disinterest in the story by environmentalists.
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How are the mainstream media dealing with it? Apparently CNN reported on this 8 days ago[0] (when it happened). Fox is running coverage live as we speak[1]. If there is any evidence of a cover-up, it has yet to be presented. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-... [1] https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-train-derailment-prompts-wat...
So the live coverage from Fox is 8 days late, right?
Fox has reports on it from a few days ago too: https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/ohio-mayor-norfolk-sou...
It's more likely that nobody really cared about this until it went viral on Twitter and TikTok, when people felt a social obligation to show support. It's not bad to recognize the issue, but our willingness to shoot the messenger has prevented us from being able to learn anything in the first place. How many people would have learned about this sooner if they watched the "mainstream media" they so vehemently claim is covering it up?
I don't really care either way, it's just food for thought.