TV and newspapers often make excuses that they are too short staffed to get every story. While I agree to this at some extent, my argument has always been to stop covering the same story repeatdedly. It could be lazziness or an attempt to not cover anything too controversial, but we don’t need a weekly report about how much water is pumped out of a cave each week.
LEAD, S.D. – Officials at the Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake say the water level dropped a record 23 feet during continued pumping the past week. Water is now 40 feet below the critical 4,850-foot level, where the first major physics experiment will be installed.
Isn’t it bad enough that we have to here about Sanford in info-mercials on the news and in actual TV commercials of pregnant women dancing around to ‘Dah, Dah, Dah’? Do really have to have sump pump updates at the Sanford Lab?
Pumps that were turned on more than a year ago have dropped the water level 360 feet
And we have been telling you about it every 10 feet that has dropped. Hey, I heard my neighbor is pumping water out of his basement today, maybe you should send a news crew over there to cover the progress.
“New at Six, the Smiths have just finished pumping water out of their laundry room. What’s next for the Smiths – find out.”