Thanks! I searched some of the many blogs that have reposted this and NOT ONE has any rebuttal of this story, or update. I don't have a TV so I am glad to hear this guy has just got a real case of paranoia. He did report though on young guy said his dad worked on the cleanup and that it was far worse than the media were reporting.
The two stories on Anderson Cooper last night were really shocking and may be the reason BP stock dropped another 19% today. I think the biggest percentage drop since the crisis began. See these links: Video: Attorney: BP's 'conduct is criminal' http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-attorney-bps-conduct-is-criminal/ Video: Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-rig-survivors-bp-ordered-shortcut-on-day-of-blast/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > BP sucks, no question, but this is crazy talk. > > There's been a no-fly zone (enforced by the Coast Guard > and the FAA) over the spill site for weeks; it's nothing > new. The Coast Guard has regular overflights every few > days for the media so photos and video can be shot of the > spill site and beaches and marshes and so on. > > The very last thing they need is for some small plane or > helicopter to get in trouble and crash in the area of the > spill. > > There have been constant reports coming in from the media, > so the idea that there's some sort of "lockdown" is absurd. > You see the reports on the news every night--NBC has a > correspondent stationed in Grand Isle--and on the cable > channels 24 hours a day. > > The local folks who have been hired by BP to do cleanup > signed a contract of some kind that prohibits them from > speaking to the media. This has also been the case from > the beginning; it's not an unusual provision, although > it sounds sinister. > > The rest of this is just nonsense. The Deepwater Response > Team--the Coast Guard and NOAA and EPA and so on--have a > press conference every day with reporter Q&A. If the > media were having problems getting their stories, they'd > be making a point of complaining loudly at the press > conference. It's just not possible to "lock down" the > media these days and have it kept quiet. > > There's some uncertainty about the exact volume of the > oil flow, but it simply isn't the case that the disaster > is "much bigger than what is being reported," nor is it > the case that the gummint isn't in control. (Doesn't mean > local police officers here or there haven't overstepped > their authority, or made an arrest because some media > jerk pissed them off.) > > I'm guessing the guy who was interviewed hasn't been > heard from since because he's discovered that he made > a huge fuss over nothing, or very little, and he's now > horribly embarrassed. >
