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Certainly we should be concerned about the damage done the environment by the oil rig explosion that spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but we must also be concerned about the dead, injured and traumatized workers aboard the rig.
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Certainly we should be concerned about the damage done the environment by the oil rig explosion that spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but we must also be concerned about the dead, injured and traumatized workers aboard the rig.
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It was coming up on ten o'clock in the evening aboard an oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon, in the Gulf of Mexico. It was Tuesday, April 20th. The big rig swayed gently in the calm waters. But then . . . suddenly . . . BOOM!
A huge explosion rocked the rig, releasing tons of oil that soon would spread over at least 25 hundred square miles. Of course it was an environmental disaster, probably the worst oil spill ever.
That what's drawn so much attention from the mainstream corporate media. But what of the workers who were aboard the Deepwater Horizon . .. they who suffered terrible trauma, serious injury and death? What about them?
Too often, the mainstream media all but ignore workers' suffering in such disasters. They sometimes seem more concerned with the degradation of the environment than with the suffering of fellow humans. They focus on the environmental damage, and its cost to...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Commentator Dick Meister says some very important workers' suffering is all but ignored. . .
OUTRO:Dick Meister is a longtime labor journalist.
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