White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill

[formerlurker]

White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill

By Noel Sheppard
Created 07/03/2010 - 11:28

The White House Thursday enacted stronger rules to prevent the media from showing what's happening with the oil spill in the Gulf Coast.

CNN's Anderson Cooper reported that evening, "The Coast Guard today announced new rules keeping photographers and reporters and anyone else from coming within 65 feet of any response vessel or booms out on the water or on beaches -- 65 feet."

He elaborated, "Now, in order to get closer, you have to get direct permission from the Coast Guard captain of the Port of New Orleans. You have to call up the guy. What this means is that oil-soaked birds on islands surrounded by boom, you can't get close enough to take that picture."

As the segment continued, Cooper expressed disgust with this rule repeating several times, "We are not the enemy here"

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[thundley4]

Gee, imagine that, the government is censoring news coverage and it's not coming from a conservative president.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Literally pouring gas on an already-smouldering press rebellion.  Liberal agenda aside, that's screwing with their payday, and they won't put up with much of that a-tall. 

[miskie]

Literally pouring gas on an already-smouldering press rebellion.  Liberal agenda aside, that's screwing with their payday, and they won't put up with much of that a-tall. 

Indeed - twice Obama has ditched the press pool - and 'the most transparent administration in history' has done more to censor coverage than any administration I can think of. Obama is also becoming famous for his inability to tell time - keeping the press milling about for hours in some cases. Eventually Obama is going to be forced to succumb to a tsunami of negative press as a result of his actions.