The video is the "raw footage", it is, in fact, EXTREMELY professional, shot by a local network. It just hasn't been edited or color-corrected (don't think that's distortion: ALL footage has to do that, just like no matter who the hell they pull off the street to give a spontaneous interview, there still someone there to apply make-up to them).
The fact that the big networks are dodging it IS MY WHOLE POINT!
If something isn't a direct "human interest" story (trapped commuters in freezing cold waters is a DC thing since Air Florida Flight 90, in 1982), or is something that can be used against "the usual targets" (Big Oil!), then it finds itself ignored and at the bottom of the stack. The fact that there isn't a science-team within, say, CNN to advise them as to the seriousness of this to MAKE it a story has been the biggest non-story of the media this decade.
Thanks to the constant "fairness" and "he said she said" crap, along with very active anti-science efforts by the extreme Right wing (environment and climate change, along with the extreme religious and their attack against evolution) and the extreme Left (anti-Pharmacy nuts preaching anti-vaccination), the media (themselves utterly uneducated on these matters) has ceased to give a shit anymore.
Maybe it'll make the news better when the obligatory lawsuits go flying around...maybe.
Hell, I don't even think the average high school graduate even remembers what the hell the TVA is...
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Date: 2008-12-23 09:53 pm (UTC)The Tennessean certainly thinks its real.
Flood of sludge breaks TVA dike | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean
Update today on coal ash disaster in Harriman | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean
Toxic Ash Pond Collapses in Tennessee: Scientific American
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - REPORT OF INVESTIGATION - Surface Impoundment Facility Underground Coal Mine Noninjury Impoundment Failure/Mine Inundation Accident - October 11, 2000 - Martin County, Kentucky
TVA Coal Ash Spill in River near Harriman, Tennessee, Estimated at 500 Million Gallons - Associated Content
The Associated Press: TVA dike bursts in Tenn., damaging a dozen homes
The fact that the big networks are dodging it IS MY WHOLE POINT!
If something isn't a direct "human interest" story (trapped commuters in freezing cold waters is a DC thing since Air Florida Flight 90, in 1982), or is something that can be used against "the usual targets" (Big Oil!), then it finds itself ignored and at the bottom of the stack. The fact that there isn't a science-team within, say, CNN to advise them as to the seriousness of this to MAKE it a story has been the biggest non-story of the media this decade.
Thanks to the constant "fairness" and "he said she said" crap, along with very active anti-science efforts by the extreme Right wing (environment and climate change, along with the extreme religious and their attack against evolution) and the extreme Left (anti-Pharmacy nuts preaching anti-vaccination), the media (themselves utterly uneducated on these matters) has ceased to give a shit anymore.
Maybe it'll make the news better when the obligatory lawsuits go flying around...maybe.
Hell, I don't even think the average high school graduate even remembers what the hell the TVA is...