Is BP Controlling The Media And Keeping Them From Filming......

[Attero Dominatus]

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global1  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:26 AM
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Is BP Controlling The Media And Keeping Them From Filming......
   
what is happening in the Gulf?

When we have a car chase the cable news shows have helicopters monitoring every second of the chase.

I'm surprised by the lack of video coming from this spill and subsequent attempts to cap it. Even the reporters on the scene in the area are on shore instead of flying over on a helicopter or a plane or on some boat to film what is going on.

Is BP keeping them away to control the spin?
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rudy23  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:28 AM
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1. I've seen the lifeless body of the tased Phillies fan face down on the field a dozen times.    Updated at 6:59 PM
   
There has to be pressure on the media. This would be a huge story for them if they were allowed to cover it.
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NNN0LHI  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:29 AM
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2. How much "man in the street", type video have you seen from Iraq or Afghanistan in this digital age?
   
A lot?

Don
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global1  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:33 AM
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3. What's Your Point?........
   
this oil rig is right here in the Gulf of Mexico 50 or so miles from the shore of the U.S. not some godforsaken country on the other side of the world. And for that matter - Yes - I've seen more footage of Iraq & Afghanistan - more than I ever wanted to. Particularly when it was controlled by BushCo with the imbedded reporters.

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NNN0LHI  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:40 AM
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6. My point is the media knows where cameras aren't welcome
   
Edited on Fri May-07-10 11:41 AM by NNN0LHI
They don't have to be told.

The distance is meaningless in the age of communication satellites. 50 miles or 5000 miles is immaterial.

Don
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CoffeeCat  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:45 AM
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8. I was listening to NPR yesterday...
   
...and a reporter talked about his experiences with BP. I apologize that I do
not have a specific source. I was in the car, listening to the radio at the time.

The reporter said that he taking pictures of some of the equipment that would be used
in putting this "box" over the leak. The reporter said he took a picture of something
that looked like a giant valve. He said that after taking the picture, a BP representative,
demanded that he stop taking pictures and his camera was confiscated!

BP is being very guarded. The reporter said that BP officials and other oil-industry
personnel are all being very tight lipped. He shouted out questions to BP officials
who were there, and he said they wouldn't even acknowledge him.

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If you do not have a source, then it is BULLSHIT by default.

upi402  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:46 AM
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9. The media is big business's cheerleader and propaganda organ
   
"Control" is assumed. Only MSNBC after noon gets information out. Or the former Air America Radio programming still being aired -but with a weak, static-ridden signal in my area now.
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Then explain why New York Slimes, Communist News Network, See-BS and PMS-NBC are anti-conservative and pro-leftist?

Echo In Light  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:51 AM
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11. Yes. The chief aim is to trivialize any 'unfavorable' data for corporate-ruled america
   
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RKP5637  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-07-10 11:49 AM
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10. It well may be me, but I'm beginning to think each day more and more we are all
   
living in "The Truman Show." I feel most of what we experience in the media and gov. is more and more controlled/presented/scripted by far more than chance. And citizens are a bunch of robots running around with their daily scripted lives trying to survive clinging to their dogma of choice.


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[The Village Idiot]

These people are stupid.

Call up CBS News and get them to send the USS Katie Couric down there to do some live coverage, and put on her SCUBA outfit and let her swim down a mile in the ocean to cover the oil seeping out.

BTW- I believe its a lot more than 50 miles from shore.

What an idiot. I am pretty sure its too far for a civilian helicopter too.

[AllosaursRus]

Who gives a rusty? The spill has had more coverage than is necessary, for cryiun' out loud! We know it's bad. Is it the end of the world? Hell no! Get a frikkin' life, idiot!

I'm more worried about the damper the "Greenies" are going to put on drilling in the future!

[TheSarge]

OFFS!

[Lord Undies]

Who gives a rusty? The spill has had more coverage than is necessary, for cryiun' out loud! We know it's bad. Is it the end of the world? Hell no! Get a frikkin' life, idiot!

I'm more worried about the damper the "Greenies" are going to put on drilling in the future!

That's what the Little Goons are worried about too.  They are scared there wouldn't be enough manipulated film clips for future propaganda films.  

[littlelamb]

I am waiting for the DUmmies to blame Bush or have I missed it?

[BlueStateSaint]

Remember something here--the "conservative media" has to do their bidding.  All the time.  No other viewpoints allowed.

[Attero Dominatus]

Who gives a rusty? The spill has had more coverage than is necessary, for cryiun' out loud! We know it's bad. Is it the end of the world? Hell no! Get a frikkin' life, idiot!

I'm more worried about the damper the "Greenies" are going to put on drilling in the future!

They love doom and gloom. It is the only thing that entertains them along with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

[Randy]

What is there to cover? The leak is a mile down. A bunch of boats anchored around and chocolate milk on the water is all you see. Even the capture dome attempt is a yawner. They lift it from the boat and throw it into the water, never to be seen again, now 30 feet shorter than 1 mile deep. 

[JohnnyReb]

On the USS Katie Couric somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico

Film crew: "Here Katie. Put this plastic bag over your head."

Katie: "Why?"

Film crew: "We hear it'll keep the salt water out of your eyes so you can see."

Katie: "Why do I need to see?"

Film crew: "Well, you don't but the story will seem more believeable."

Katie: "Why? Dan Rather got away with lying for 40 years. I got 20 more to go."

Film crew: "Just shut up before you suck all the air out of the bag."

Film crew: "Now slip these cement shoes on."

Katie: "Why?"

Film crew: "So you can sink to the bottom to get to the story."

Katie: "Why?"

Film crew: "Because. That's where the leaking oil well is."

Katie: "Oh."

Film crew: "Now put this end of this garden hose in your mouth."

Katie: "Why?"

Film crew: "So you can breath."

Katie: "Oh yeah. I forget to do that sometimes."

Film crew: "We'll hold this end and screw on more hoses as you go down."

Katie: "Why? I don't go down anymore, I got married."

Film crew: "No, no. While you're going down to the leaking oil well."

Katie: "Oh yeah."

Film crew: "OK now...we're just going to slide these cement shoes and you over the side now."

SPLASH....BLUB...BLUB....BLUB...

Film crew: "HEY! I thought you had the end of the garden hose?"

Film crew: "Hello...Dan....have we got a story for you."

[The Village Idiot]

lol!!

That is how I would envision it too