What if al-Qaeda was poisoning our drinking water?

Wouldn't that be news? Like the top story in all news organizations?

So why is it not more newsworthy that private, for profit companies are doing it, especially when it is being done intentionally?

The recent "spill" of chemical into a West Virginia waterway--incredibly, just UPSTREAM from a water treatment plant that serves hundreds of thousands of people!--made news.

But the fact that companies do this stuff regularly, on purpose, is not newsworthy, as illustrated in this Business Insider report;
http://www.businessinsider.com/mchm-is-nothing-new-in-our-water-2014-1

Read the words of a former Massey Energy company employee, a man who was part of the intentional pollution of the Earth for profit, working for a company that killed many people on many occasions.

The truth is there is news about it but it is not front page news anywhere, and that has meaning.

And as usual, it takes a comedian to speak the truth.

Mountaintop removal=60,000 cancers

... making it more deadly than murder.

Yet, it remains perfectly legal, in spite of the immense damage it does to the environment and the inhabitants of an area.

The companies behind this basically have said, "Hey, there is West Virginia, they don't need those mountains."

And although citizens have been fighting it for decades, it continues, mostly because law-makers remain in the pockets of the companies.

But you rarely hear about this from the mainstream media.

This is the beauty of independent media, such as Common Dreams, free from the stranglehold of corporations.

Use these media if you want to learn about what is really dangerous. You won't learn it from Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, or CNN.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/27-2