Government shared info for anti-terrorism, but not workplace safety.
from truthout
"The twin tragedies of last week –the Boston Marathon bombing and the West Texas Chemical and Fertilizer plant explosion — received vastly unequal media attention. While reporters pored over every detail of the Boston story (including some “facts” that turned out to be false), a study by Media Matters for America found that only two of 63 cable news segments this week about the Texas explosion have mentioned a key finding that became public on Saturday: The plant contained 270 tons of ammonium nitrate, well over the legal limit.
"But it’s not just the media that focus on terrorism over workplace safety; it’s also the government.
"Although Americans were 270 times more likely to die in a workplace accident than a terrorist attack in 2011, the Department of Homeland Security’s budget that year was $47 billion, while OSHA’s budget was only $558 million. And while the Senate has grilled top intelligence officials about possible information-sharing failures in the lead-up to the Boston bombing, lawmakers have not looked at similar evidence that information-sharing problems may have played a role in the Texas explosion. …"
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