On Friday afternoon, at juist before four o’clock on November 9th, 2007 at Morristown, Tennessee’s Moore-Murrell Municipal airport’ Evelyn Bryan Johnson building, home to Morristown Air Service, a horrible accident happened. A helicopter pilot was decapitated by the rotors of his own helicopter. The pilot, Harold E. “Gene” Jones from West Virginia, and his two passengers landed at the airport to get some fuel for their Bell 407 Helicopter. According to wsaz.com, “Jones had been employed by the Logan & Kanawha Coal Company since July, 1982, according to the release. He was an accomplished pilot, having served as both a military and private pilot.” According to witnesses, Apparantly, Mr. Jones was heading back out to the helicopter, and was hit about eye level with the rotors, decapitating him.

This is a horrific accident, and you would figure that the national news corperations would be all over this. Sadly, around twenty-one hours later, the only news orginations to cover this story are the ones in the local area of Morristown, Tennesse. The Citizen Tribune (http://www.citizentribune.com) the local news paper to Morristown Tennessee and surrounding areas as well as the Knoxville News Senital (http://www.Knoxnews.com), Knoxville Tennessee television stations, WVLT, WATE TV 6, and WBIR have had stories on this. the only non local station to have anything on this was http://www.wsaz.com out of West Virginia.

Where the hell are Cnn, MSNBC, and Fox News? What are they covering.. OJ Freaking Simpson, The war overseas, and the fact than author Normal Mailer died. Ok, I will give them that the Mailer death is sad, but what about a 65 year old pilot that died in a horrible accident. I mean when there are car chased in California, they break live converage to go there, when a plane makes an emergency landing they cut live there, a presidential candidate does something stupid, or when Paris, Britney, Lindsey, or any of the other celebrity trash does something they are all over that like flies on garbage. The “Major” news media in this country is truly pathetic at best.

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