--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brian64705 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Thanks! I searched some of the many blogs that have reposted > this and NOT ONE has any rebuttal of this story, or update.
Well, you're welcome to repost what I wrote on those blogs if you think it'll help. (If you do, please omit my name, or identify me as Swift Loris, which is my handle for blog comments.) 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. This was a 15-year-old kid, probably scared by it all, or enjoying scaring the filmmaker. Who knows where he got the idea? There has been talk *in the media* that BP was underestimating the flow, which is accurate, but the government has had independent scientists estimate it, and while it's more than was originally estimated, it's not "vastly" more--and it's being *reported* that it's more, so that's not a big secret. This filmmaker guy had only been there less than a day. It's not surprising there was a lot of hustle and bustle and tension in the town, because it's one of the big staging areas for the cleanup, and also has some of the worst damage from the oil. Folks there would naturally be on edge and upset. I wouldn't suggest nothing the guy said was true, but he was taking bits and pieces and putting them together in a sensational way that misrepresents what's really going on. > 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/ Wow, that second one with the survivors is hard to watch. I hope they're getting treatment for PTSD, because they sure look like they're all struggling with it. Cooper did an excellent job interviewing them, I thought, straightforward but gentle, low key. But...bear in mind that everybody has an axe to grind. The TV people, especially the cable folks, have an interest in promoting the Bad BP theme because it gets them eyeballs. It doesn't hurt to take them with a grain of salt, including Cooper. Lawyers likewise. Cooper gets details wrong from time to time. I haven't seen one TV report or read one print story that is completely accurate. BP is a rotten company, and I hope they get what's coming to them. But that doesn't mean everything they do is wrong or that all their intentions are evil or that there are huge conspiracies between them and the government. As with everything else in the world, there are shades of gray. If you're interested in really knowledgeable discussion of this disaster by oil industry folks--most of whom are not, to say the least, fans of BP--take a look at this blog: http://www.theoildrum.com I've been hanging out there since the beginning of the spill, mostly just absorbing. A lot of the discussion in the comments is way over my head technically, but enough of it is accessible to the layperson to make it worthwhile. The continuing discussion of the spill is just part of what's on the blog; look for the posts with "BP Deepwater Oil Spill" in the title. The posts themselves have a lot of good information, and there's real meat in the comments. You won't become an expert, but if you stick around for a while, you'll know more than about 99 percent of the public does. It's a good place to check out rumors, too. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> 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.
