Your loved ones are alive! NOT!!

Many of us heard about the explosion at a West Virginia mine and learned that there were 13 miners still trapped in the collapsed mine. Late last night, media outlets started reporting that 12 of the 13 miners had been located alive. They even started interviewing the miners’ families about the miracle rescue and whatnot. Bells started ringing in apparent celebration.

The bad news?

The media fucked up big time.

What was supposed to be a feel-good story about most of the miners being rescued quickly turned sour when it was confirmed that the media had the reports exactly backward: 12 of the miners were confirmed dead and the one that was still alive was in critical condition. Mine officials had to contact the families that had been celebrating earlier to deliver news that practically everyone was dead.

How on earth do you screw up this badly? We have the media tell us made up stories about Bush in the last election, we only get one side of the story from Iraq and now they can’t even get something like this correct? Wow. Congratulations American media, you just confirmed you are as useless as a bag of assholes.