Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Spelunking

THE SUNDAY NEWS-Thai boys soccer team from the Than Luang cave complex.

I guess the media ( we get NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS) was keeping us up to date on events but, I thought the coverage we were getting had a lot of repeat in the content. Our prompt sheet for the week told me more about how they actually led the boys to safety than I had watched anywhere on our channels. Our channels focused on the hospital ward where they were recovering, which was of course very important and than later we saw coverage of some of the boys after they returned to their homes. I was very glad to hear they were all safe, especially, after the diver died.

The coverage was as indepth as it needed to be as to the physical state they found the group in. And, of course, if you are sitting at home watching them warn of the rains that were going to wash out everyone you get anxious for them to get on with the rescue.

I put myself in the place of the relatives sitting outside waiting all those days. I wished they had done the coverage more on a cultural side so I understood how these people were living, whose boys were stranded. I also wondered why the whole team was taken down into the cave in the beginning?