April 3, 2014

Don Blankenship releases 'documentary' that absolves Don Blankenship in death of 29 miners

www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/03/1289402/--Documentary-seeks-to-exculpate-lying-former-coal-exec-Don-Blankenship-for-2010-mining-deaths
"The notorious Don Blankenship, former CEO of A.T. Massey, the sixth largest coal operator in the United States, showed up Monday in the offices of Bloomberg/Businessweek to promote his new, self-funded documentary video. The video was timed for release to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the explosion in West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine on April 5, 2010. Twenty-nine of the 31 miners were killed. According to reporters Paul M. Barrett and Justin Bachman, Blankenship's purpose in the 51-minute documentary—Upper Big Branch: Never Again—is "absolving himself of blame and spewing venom toward regulators and political enemies"."