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Coal mine disasters fall into that category of stakeout news stories that take on a life of their own--see humpback whales up the Sacramento River (text link)--and end up utterly overcovered just because a correspondent and crew have been deployed to the scene and are available to offer a daily update, whether one is warranted or not. On the third day of the search for six miners trapped by a cave-in at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah, NBC's Jennifer London told us that it may take seven days to tunnel through to their location horizontally while CBS' John Blackstone estimated two days to drill a bore hole down vertically. Blackstone offered some background on mineowner Robert Murray, who worked his way up from the coalface where he started at age sixteen. "He is now one of the biggest coalmine operators in the country," Blackstone noted, calling him "combative" at press conferences and quoting his "colorful" soundbites against "United Mineworkers propaganda" at Senate hearings.
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