Veteran reporter Richard Carleton dead

[kretzy]

While reporting on the trapped miners in Tasmania, Richard Carleton (a well know journalist here in Aus), collapsed of a suspected heart attack and died shortly after in hospital. Link to the story.

 

[Chundles]

While reporting on the trapped miners in Tasmania, Richard Carleton (a well know journalist here in Aus), collapsed of a suspected heart attack and died shortly after in hospital. Link to the story.

What a shock eh? Looks like those miners will be down there for yet another night - that's 13 now, I can't imagine how frustrated they must be, chipping away at rock 5x harder than concrete. Ergh...

 

[kretzy]

I know it's unbelievable. Did you hear that Harry M Miller is already down in Tassie, no doubt planning to get their stories and sell them for large sums of money?

 

[Chundles]

I know it's unbelievable. Did you hear that Harry M Miller is already down in Tassie, no doubt planning to get their stories and sell them for large sums of money?

I would've thought he would be down there before the earthquake - I reckon he'd have a sixth sense for when there was the chance to make some coin.

 

[Shamus]

Terrible loss. And a surprising loss. He would only have been 50 or 60 too wouldnt he?

Another day of frustration in Tassie. 🙁

 

[kretzy]

Yeah he was only 64, though he had had health issues in the past.

At least he went out doing what he best. These were his last words: "On 26th October last year, not 10 metres from where these men are now entombed, you had a 400-tonne rock fall. Why is it, is it the strength of the seam, or the wealth of the seam, that you continue to send men into work in such a dangerous environment?"