Re: Muni Crash
Author: espeefoamer
Date: 07-20-2009 - 00:36
Q Wrote:
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> Thanks for the link.
>
> But can't we wait for the investigators to at come
> up with at least a preliminary sense of the cause,
> before we all jump to conclusions about who or
> what is at fault. And then also wait for that
> before we jump to more conclusions about what will
> be done about it.
>
> In other words - it was the chronic undisciplined
> reporting of wild unsubstantiated speculation, on
> every subject under the sun as though it were
> fact; that has led to the near demise of the news
> media as we know it. So - let's quit trying to
> do the same here (as we did re. the MetroLink and
> WMATA accidents), and thus ruin this news source
> as well!
>
> In more other words - "hold yer fire 'till you see
> the whites of their eyes!"
I think just about everyhbody was thinking "texting" as the cause of that accident.