Why is there a news blackout of the Canadian Oil train wreck?

A runaway train with over 70 oil tank cars derailed in a small Canadian town, exploded and killed 50 or 60 people.

TV news gave the disaster a brief mention and then obsessed on the Zimmerman trial and a San Francisco plane crash that killed 2 passengers.

This reminded me of the release of the Downing Street memos that was ignored by the press as they went into saturation coverage of a woman who skipped her wedding.

Is the news media so in bed with the oil industry that they are willingly covering up news that would make the oil industry look bad?

Or do the same people who own the media also own the oil industry?

 

Plenty of coverage in Australia. Maybe Shasta is interfering with your coverage?

 

Yeah I have been seeing daily updates in Kansas, so maybe the mountain is the issue

 

most northern calif station and newspapers are too busy covering the airplane crash right now..

 

You may find these to be of interest.

http://abcnews.go.com/International...ts-blame-crash/story?id=19630107#.UeDF3dJvPvU

http://business.financialpost.com/2...has-more-to-answer-to-than-just-shareholders/

Ed Burkhardt doesn't have that good a track record, considering the amount of rolling stock that, under his tenure, has come off the rails.

 

No blackout, there was plenty of coverage right after the wreck...

... but unlike the plane crash in San Francisco, it happened outside the U.S.

... which gives it about a 3 day life cycle, which is about what it got.