This makes no sense.
Searching Yahoo gets a handful of articles from the 13th and 16th. FoxNews has nothing at all. The LA Times has a recent hit, but you have to register for it while the NY Times nets many hits, but none of them relevant. A Washington Post search turns up nothing beyond the now-familiar September 13th reports. CNN's got nothing besides that first article on the 13th. Searching UPI gets one article and it's also from the 13th. Ditto for the Austin-American Statesman, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Houston Press, and so on and so forth. A decent round-up can be found at local TV station KHOU's website, but, of course, the articles are all days old. Click2Houston.com has the only fresh reporting I've seen on this and it is also from the 16th.
Is this just not important anymore? When does a story permanently pass from national news to local? What elements of a story give it reason to be in the national press? Normally, I'd understand how this process works...but the near-absolute silence on this is odd.
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INITIALLY THE STATES PIRGS STATED THAT "THE 25 FACILITIES IN TEXAS STORING THE LARGEST AMOUNTS OF EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES" (1) AS SAN JACINTO RIVER AUTHORITY WW PLANT SO2, THE WOODLANDS , TEXAS. MAX.AMT. IN SINGLE PROCESS(LBS) 800,012,000 OF ANHYDROUS SULFUR DIOXIDE. IN CONTACTING THE STATE PIRGS SITE THEY REPLIED THAT THE INFO WAS RECEIVED INCORRECTLY FROM THE BASF CORP, AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN 12,000LBS OF ANHYDROUS SULFUR DIOXIDE. THIS AMOUNT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE EITHER.I CANNOT GET A VARIFIED AMOUNT ON HAND AT THIS PLANT. ALSO AS YOU MAY HAVE READ RECENTLY THAT A POSSIBLE TERRORIST INCIDENT HAPPENED AT THE FREEPORT FACILITY. THE PLANT CONTAINS 120,000,000 LBS OF AMMONIA, AND THE ASSAILANT SHOT THE GUARD,NOT BEFORE EXPLAINING THAT HE WAS TAKING PICTURES OF THE LIGHTS AND THE FACILITY.MY CONCERN IS THAT IF THERE ARE EVIL INTENTIONS AT WORK HERE, THE COMBINATION OF DEADLY GASES COULD BE FAR WORSE THAN BHOPAL INDIA.THE SILENCE BY THE NEWS MEDIA OF THESE HAPPENINGS COULD BE NATIONAL SECURITY, ALTHOUGH THE NEWS MEDIA SEEMS TO HAVE ABDICATED ITS RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS AREA, UNLESS OF COURSE IT BECOMES NEWS WORTHY.
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