Not deep enough

“Reality” is not apparently enough of “a hot commodity” for the Walt Disney Co. to include the larger political and economic context of last July’s Pennsylvania mine calamity in its docudrama (“The art of the ordeal,” Nov. 24). Disney was so concerned with “getting the details right” that its producers missed the opportunity to reveal the larger causes of this and numerous other mining “accidents” -- company greed and lack of government oversight of mine safety conditions.

While President Bush rushed to the Quecreek mine scene to ham it up with the media, arms around rescued miners, he was cutting the budget for mine safety enforcement.

Robert P. Weiss

Plattsburgh, N.Y.