A TOXIC TRAIN WRECKS, MEGA MEDIA DOESN'T REPORT IT

I'm always going on about how big business is bad. Mega corporations, by default, can't possibly have our best interests at heart. Here is a great example of what can happen when a company gets too big and people's lives are put at risk. Back in January of 2007, DemocracyNow.org [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/25/153207|reported] the following story about an incident that happened in 1997:

Five years ago this week a train derailed in Minot, North Dakota leaking thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals into the air. One person died and hundreds were treated for immediate health problems. The city's six non-religious commercial radio stations – all owned by Clear Channel – never aired warnings for local residents.

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The radio giant Clear Channel owned all six commercial stations in Minot, North Dakota. None of them broke into regular programming to provide emergency information to the city's residents. After the town's Emergency Alert System failed, local officials tried to call the stations - but no one answered. The stations continued to play music piped in from out of state.

Now, there are laws in place that force broadcasters like Clear Channel to enforce the whole "Emergency Broadcast System" thing that means you can turn on the radio or TV and learn about emergencies in your area. Now, if the USG were to do something about this, all Clear Channel would have to do is pay a fine and that will be that. No one gets arrested, no one goes to jail and worst of all, people's lives are put in danger because companies like Clear Channel are "too important" to care about the little people in North Dakota. .

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