Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Mea Culpa -- part II

By now, we know that the media, and I, got it wrong about the West Virginia mine tragedy. It now turns out that all of us, including the miners' families, were incorrectly told that of the 13 trapped miners, 12 had been found alive.

I don't think anyone has the words to describe what those families went through when they found out that the message had been garbled and that only one of them made it.

Shouldn't there be words that get a little closer to being adequate than, "We're sorry?"

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