U.S. media has forgotten those killed on the BP Deepwater Horizon rig

Foreign coverage stronger at showing the human element

There’s no shortage of the heartbreaking images of oil soaked pelicans on the Gulf Coast but as in almost every offshore tragedy (except the Titanic) the human lives lost are left to the archived obituaries and forgotten by American media.

Widows and families of the 11 workers killed on the April 20 explosion have called out for the sacrifices of their loved ones not to be in vain.

Leave it to the foreign media outlets to put human faces to the tragedy instead of concentrating primarily on the environmental aspects.

The Guardian, one of the UK’s leading publications, has a touching story this week on the trials and tribulations faced by the surviving families. Perhaps the hardest thing to deal with, said one of the widows, was trying to tell her three-year-old son that his father will never come home again.

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Source: Guardian