The gulf is getting a bit gooey

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Why is the media silent? Don't they realize this is bad yet?

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Move along. Nothing to see here." - Corporate Media (R)

"Oh, while we have your attention, be sure to support 'special' rights and 'special' benefits for Corporate Persons (R), and be sure to vote for More Tax Cuts for Wealthy Corporate Entitites (R). Smirk."

- Corporate Media (R)

[lunatica]

2. The media is silent because it's Big Oil

That is all that needs to be said

[AllentownJake]

3. The media is silent to real disasters

They will acknowledge them when they have to and than move on.

You can tell a real disaster from a fake disaster by the amount of time the media spends on it.

For instance the media spent countless hours scaring the shit out of the populace on Swine Flu.

What was the coverage like about Katrina before it hit landfall in comparison? How about how often the reporters go down there to report on the re-construction efforts.

Iraq? Afghanistan?


Haiti, we don't hear too much of what is going on down there these days after the celebrity telethon. The problem was fixed by Justin Timberlake's singing of Haleujah and you downloading it on your Iphone!

Some people blame the populace for having a short attention span, it really isn't the case. The media wants these stories wrapped up quickly for the powers that be (the corporations that own and advertise on them) so that you go back to consuming and don't think about how inept your government actually is.

What will be the reporting on the Gulf be like, probably they will show brave BP workers cleaning up beaches in a photo shoot and not report the oil that is still there 3 years from now, because their masters want it that way and that is what they will get.

The devastation will not be reported, the government will not adequately respond, and we will have a telethon maybe. I hope Justin has a good cover to sing about Hope and healing ready to go for his close-up and Itunes download.

Now back to Dancing with the Stars!

[realFedUp]

4. "Bitter Pill"

BP should pay for not only a ruined environment but the price of every
living thing they killed, every job lost, every piece of land ruined. They
should be put out of business and every person who made a decision
about this site should be fired, tarred and feathered in the public
arena. I don't know why there isn't more hoo-ha being made of this
disaster, caused by human hands and like Harry Shearer said: arrogant
ignorance.

Can we get some justice in this country for once...and not the just
for the guy selling bags of dope. Can we get some cojones on this
president and the justice dept.?

[AllentownJake]

5. In a sane culture

Their assets would be confiscated and their executives put into ox-carts paraded through the streets of New Orleans to have cabbage thrown at them as they went to trial.

[marylanddem]

7. Excellent post - couldn't agree more.

Tarred with the damn shit they're spewing into the Gulf.

[revolution breeze]

9. But

Then we have thousands of people across the Gulf Coast who are now unemployed (including administrative support staff, janitors, drivers, etc.), which will further hurt an already devastated region. Domino affect.

[revolution breeze]

6. This makes me so sad

The first full day of summer vacation, my youngest daughter and her sister wake up early and head to the beach, Every year is a different adventure, Mobile, Gulfport, Bay St. Louis. Wonder if there will be anywhere for them to go in next Friday.

[liberal N proud]

8. Damn those were beautiful waters

You could see the bottom in many places far from shore and watch the ocean life below.

Man has to ruin everything with GREED!