Why Is It...?

Curious! According to authorities, there where 126 people on board the Deepwater Horizon when disaster struck. 79 were Transocean employees; 6 were BP; 41 were contract workers. Let’s stipulate that the Obama administration’s assessment of the situation is correct, that BP was at fault – as Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, so eloquently put it, "Our job is basically to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum, - the lesson we can draw from this is that it takes only a few (community organizers*) to upset the applecart.

In addition, 94 people were able to escape the wreck in lifeboats; 4 were taken to other (North Korean*) ships; 17 were evacuated to shore by helicopter; 11 are missing and presumed dead.

Strange! Following any disaster (mining, flooding, fire, train wreck, etc.) a phalanx of press is usually right there interviewing survivors and their families. Often, the president makes it a point to go and personally comfort the wounded and the grieving. To my knowledge, none of this has happened. Why? Wouldn’t at the very least each one of the 94 have a spectacular story to tell? Why is it that the missing and presumed dead are never mentioned even so much as in prayer? Something about this sounds very fishy (if you pardon my pun).
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*my own speculation