A rowdy minority group in Turkey has attempted to manipulate the deep sorrow felt by the silent majority through the street protests against the democratically-elected government. However, such attempts to unsettle the government are always in vain as results at the ballot box attest.The silent majority expects the detection of the Soma Coalmine administrator's defects, provision of social security for the victims' families, effective supervision of mines, and the decrease of possible future accidents.The disaster in Soma also enabled us to realize the crucial problems of our coal mining industry, in which 48,000 people are employed.For instance, the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) released a report titled "An Evaluation Report on the Labor Accidents in Mines and Its Consequences," which points out that in the coal mining sector a total of 2,554 people were killed and 13,000 became incapable of work due to labor accidents and occupational illnesses between 1991 and 2008. Chinese example In China, where the mining accidents are often observed just as in Turkey, the pits have been restructured while small, unproductive and detrimental ones have been closed down since 2004. According to the TEPAV's report, Turkey cannot compete with the world in terms of prices since Turkey's coal production costs are higher than the large coal producers of the world. When high rates of death and incapacity to work are added to this, the economic consequences of the labor accidents get worse to a great degree.Along with sharing the pain of the disasters like Soma, the media is also supposed to constantly remind the administrators and managers to face the truths unveiled with this disaster. Media's responsibility The media also doesn't carry out one of its other responsibilities.For instance, the issue of work safety is not represented by media except for some public announcements on TV. Until the Soma tragedy, we did not come across any broadcasts on the shortcomings of the coal mining industry in Turkey. The laws enacted and seminars held on this matter have not drawn much attention so far. The unionism is only remembered on May Days in Taksim.We need to remember that apart from political conflicts and paparazzi scandals, there are also other news subjects that are supposed to be rendered to both domestic and international audience.The attempts to turn the society's true grief into street protests would only make people forget the problems within the mining industry, and drag the solution pursuits out of the agenda.