From the New York Times we get a compelling description of the economic bind that coal miners find themselves trapped in. Jason Linkins has a post at Huffington Post covering Blankenship and Massey Energy’s problems with safety regulations. Linkins provides a number of links that I haven’t been able to follow up on yet. Huffington […]
I’m continuing to collect news and internet coverage of the Upper Big Branch Mine Blast. New York Times coverage for the morning of 4/8. The New York Times takes a look at the complicated background and local loyalties surrounding Massey Energy Co. and its CEO Don Blankenship. CNN gives some background into one of the […]
I’m continuing to collect news and internet coverage of the mining tragedy at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal West Virginia. Due to time constraints I’m playing catch up on some of these posts and they rightfully belong in yesterday’s post. I’ll try to distinguish these in my links. New York Times story for […]
I will be keeping a running log of news stories related to this tragedy in this post and following it up with subsequent posts examining the tragedy and the press and national reaction to it. Right now though our obvious thoughts should be for the missing miners and all of the families struggling through this. […]
