{"id":520362,"date":"2010-04-08T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81646"},"modified":"2010-04-08T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:25:51","slug":"massey%e2%80%99s-blankenship-lauds-company%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98professionalism%e2%80%99-decries-media%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98indignity%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520362","title":{"rendered":"Massey\u2019s Blankenship Lauds Company\u2019s \u2018Professionalism,\u2019 Decries Media\u2019s \u2018Indignity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don Blankenship<\/a> — the unapologetic CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine where at least 25 coal miners died in an explosion<\/a> this week — just ended the nearly two-week-long drought on his Twitter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Thought it might help for those of you out there wanting information about the tragedy to use Twitter,” he begins.<\/p>\n

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First thing that comes to mind is the dignity, compassion, understanding, and expressions of the miners\u2019 families.<\/p>\n

Second, is the incredible courage effort, tireless work, and professionalism of Massey\u2019s members.<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, is the amazing effort on MSHA’s part to find the right path to rescue\/recovery.<\/p>\n

Fourth, is the work ethic and genuineness of Joe Manchin.<\/p>\n

Fifth, is the huge number of supportive emails that I\u2019ve received to which I could not possibly respond.<\/p>\n

Sixth, the indignity of much of the media.<\/p>\n

Seventh, the efforts of the rescue teams who are supporting us from throughout the industry.<\/p>\n

Eighth, the response of local emergency services and community support groups and churches \u2013 positive.<\/p>\n

Ninth, the tireless work of members of our spousal group and others to feed and make the families comfortable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, rescue workers this morning are finally descending<\/a> into the mine in search of four miners who remain unaccounted for. Those efforts had been delayed due to toxic gases that had built up in the mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don Blankenship — the unapologetic CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine where at least 25 coal miners died in an explosion this week — just ended the nearly two-week-long drought on his Twitter page. “Thought it might help for those of you out there wanting information about the tragedy to use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}