Last weekend a San Francisco bus of Greyline's/Coach USA/Coach America/San Francisco Sightseeing/Franciscan/and numerous other alias',,, ran away without a driver(the "assistant safety coordinator"!!) downhill INTO THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM !! Fortunately no one was killed, maimed or injured. Saturday, March 22,2008.
I did not hear about it until the next day, Sunday i believe, so i phoned NBC-TV in SF to see if they were going to cover it,,,and i was told "it is not our market,,,Monterey is KSBW-TV". But a few days later the same SF NBC-TV station did a segment on the Los Angeles Quantas airplane that blew out some tires. This seems like a huge cover-up and double standard. An airline from Australia in LA gets reported but the huge bus company does not when based in same (SF) city. There is something very rotten here.
That night i did see a very short and obscured segment on the CBS-TV-5 ,,,but they did not interview the driver or show anymore than a close up still of the bus sticking into the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
What about ABC-TV-7 and KRON-TV-4 and TV-2?? Did they duck their public trust too ?? KQED-TV-9 gets its new filtered/biz censored by huge donor Chevron, so no need to expect much from that channel.
This is the same company,the largest tour bus company in SF and the supposed California tourism industry standard, that recently had 2 very serious accidents, also covered up. An adult was runover and killed on Nob Hill by a bus driver making an illegal left turn in front of Grace Cathedral. Then a wheel chair adult was not strapped to the floor anchors on a tour to Muir Woods and in one of those steep narrow road turns the wheel chaired adult went out the bus door and onto the road!!
This is a bloodsucking-but-useless Teamster's Union workforce-no overtime pay,unlike other SF large tour bus company!!- that has glorified bus washers and tire changers as mechanics with little formal and technically respected mechanic school certification. The fleet is old, dented, and dirty with seat upholstery that probably has not been steam cleaned of sweat,food residue and germs in over 10 years.
What a pathetic state of 'professional journalism' in these United States of America !!
