[babystrangeloop]

http://petrocollapse.blogspot.com/2011/12/kaboom.html

[babystrangeloop]

There was only one news article in English about this.

After a little searching on place names which are the same in Spanish and English I was able to turn up more news articles about the pipeline sabotage in Mexico but in Spanish only.

I used google translate and massaged the output into this English version:

http://petrocollapse.blogspot.com/2011/ ... art-2.html

And the tone is much more dramatic in the Spanish version than the English one.

Why are US news reporters not shy about using dramatic tones to write about pipeline, refinery and other sabotage in the Middle East but demure when it comes to writing about the same sabotage in North America? Is there something they don't want people to see?

[Windmills]

I think it's more simply that sabotage in the Middle East sells more copy. It's the same idea behind nuclear power and fossil fuels. Fossil fuels result in a constant stream of dead bodies, but that doesn't grab people's attention. It's old news; we're used to it. On the other hand, a nuclear accident doesn't even have to kill anyone to keep people glued to the story. Theoretical deaths on paper are good enough to sell it.