going to do mining safety story the next couple of weeks and a month or two from know we re going to forget mining safety stories and on to hurricanes and tornados and that s kind of the way the news it. jon: judy is shaking her head. no, only because this company is so notorious. ten years ago, an extraordinary book called coal river documenting the repeated violations of this firm and the head of that firm, john blankenship, year after year, citation after violation, nothing happens. journalists don t pick up on it. if we don t cover the regulation of industries like this on the steady basis, what do we cover? but who is going to cover them? the journalism industry has shrunk drastically so you look at the reporters that are down there, they re sending one guy with a camera crew, one string of reporters. who is going to do this investigative work now and to your point, elliss, you re absolutely right, if it bleeds it leads, we know that and even
russ russia, the new york times, a big handshake with caption agreement on arms control. and the washington times, senators voice doubts on nuke treaty. now the president has to try to convince the senate and the american people that the treaty will in fact make the u.s. safer. and that s where the media push comes in. so, elliss, are you expecting a big invitation to the white house so the president can sell you on this treaty and try to push the senate to ratify it? you know, that hasn t happened yet, but i m ever hopeful. listen, i think it s good news when the media is addressing serious topics and it used to be we felt a responsibility to cover thing that were important, not just things that are titillating. this is not going to get great ratings, it s not going to be scarfed down by millions of people, but important we are going to be writing about it smartly. jon: we showed the photo earlier, judy, this is the way it actually appeared in at least one version of the new yor
with this bullying case we are going to talk about it a couple days and move on. it s a certain kind of bleeding, for lack of a better word, an airplane crash or coal mine disaster. almost a hundred people a day in america die from car accidents. almost 200 people a day die from medical errors and you know, those are big stories and there s every ten years somebody writes a pulitzer prize winning book about some catastrophe there. but i mean, elliss has a point in terms there s a hook that lends itself to coverage like this mine disaster. and a there s 18 political talking heads die dramatically every few years. in an airplane. believe me we d have focusing on jet safety. and airplane safety if they all went down on a plane, but when you go down in a mine, despite the fact that blankenship, the head of this camera, rips the camera out of the hands of an abc reporter and says, don t tack anymore pictures or you ll get shot, and everybody says ho-hum, there
going to do mining safety story the next couple of weeks and a month or two from know we re going to forget mining safety stories and on to hurricanes and tornados and that s kind of the way the news it. jon: judy is shaking her head. no, only because this company is so notorious. ten years ago, an extraordinary book called coal river documenting the repeated violations of this firm and the head of that firm, john blankenship, year after year, citation after violation, nothing happens. journalists don t pick up on it. if we don t cover the regulation of industries like this on the steady basis, what do we cover? but who is going to cover them? the journalism industry has shrunk drastically so you look at the reporters that are down there, they re sending one guy with a camera crew, one string of reporters. who is going to do this investigative work now and to your point, elliss, you re absolutely right, if it bleeds it leads, we know that and even
she s 25 years old and also gracing the cover of sports illustrated olympic preview issue and she has a few pages in the annual swimsuit edition as well. we found out, elliss, that there she is in the swimsuit issue, we found out she s already injured herself potentially putting in danger her olympic run, is this another example, i have it here somewhere, another example of the sports illustrated curse, a lot of athletes who make the cover have all kind of problems afterwards. and they all still like being there, don t they? as a louisiana guy i m going to suggest they have hot chocolate and awfully cold in vancouver. felix gillette wrote a piece about the olympics, where the news can drive the story, not twitter and youtube, it s the narrative set down by the network, and dick ubersol is a