One conspiracy theory floating around is that the UFO shoot downs came at a fortuitous time to keep this chemical spill off the front page.
Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
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Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably because it happened to a village of 200 people in the relative middle of nowhere. Remember the Flint water crisis? That was a population-dense city, with multiple school districts all being poisoned by lead and legionnaires disease. Nobody cared about it until it was turned into a political negligence story, then it was all you could see on Fox and CNN... People just don't really care about this stuff. It's…
It's 2,000 people in the town itself and 20,000 within a 10 mile radius. We're quite lucky this did not happen in Pittsburgh or Columbus.
Hey, 0 people live in the water so it's fine if the oceans get poisoned, right?
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#63Never heard about this in the past 1.5 hours...
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#64I'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…
> 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
It's not like it's subtle. There have been hundreds of Chinese weather balloon stories in the past week. Have there been hundreds of stories about this? US companies make money from stories about Chinese weather balloons. They lose money when horrific things like this happen.
There is a man who was shot twice (and grievously injured) in a robbery who is filing suit against the city of Chicago for its policy of breaking off high-speed chases (which have killed plenty of innocents in Chicago), arguing that they would have captured the perpetrator before they shot him if they had chased him during another incident. Local Chicago news is so determined to roll back recent reforms like ending cash bail and high speed chases in the city that we not only get multiple stories every day about the suit, we got multiple stories before the suit was filed about rumors and announcements that the suit was being filed.
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#65I see a million tweets on Twitter about this story that "I haven't heard of."
Let's not forget the dozens of Reddit posts that have made it to the front page of /r/all
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#66This is fine but we can't have nuclear reactors.
"Nuclear powerplants take too long to built, if we start building them now, it'll take around 10 years to get them to produce power, and by then we'll have better alternatives!"
(this is what they were telling me in the 90s.... and 2000s... and 2010s... and are still telling me now...)
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#67Frankly getting tired of hearing about how I haven't heard about it, and nobody wants me to hear about it. If you want to write about news, write about it. If you want to point out instances of news media not covering this story where they might have covered other stories go for it, cite instances. All I've been convinced of so far is some people have an axe to grind, and part of their narrative is how the media or t…
Then maybe this isn't about you, specifically? How are the mainstream media dealing with it?
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Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably because it happened to a village of 200 people in the relative middle of nowhere. Remember the Flint water crisis? That was a population-dense city, with multiple school districts all being poisoned by lead and legionnaires disease. Nobody cared about it until it was turned into a political negligence story, then it was all you could see on Fox and CNN... People just don't really care about this stuff. It's…
It's 2,000 people in the town itself and 20,000 within a 10 mile radius. We're quite lucky this did not happen in Pittsburgh or Columbus.
And Flint's water empties into all 5 lakes. Still not worth talking about polluting the world's largest freshwater body until we can throw darts at a talking head though!
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#69I'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…
Because the guilty party are ad buyers.
Don't think Norfolk Southern is a big ad buyer.
Re: Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
#70Frankly getting tired of hearing about how I haven't heard about it, and nobody wants me to hear about it. If you want to write about news, write about it. If you want to point out instances of news media not covering this story where they might have covered other stories go for it, cite instances. All I've been convinced of so far is some people have an axe to grind, and part of their narrative is how the media or t…
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