America moves on, Gulf coast feels abandoned

[G_j]

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201010111293192

America moves on from spill, coast abandoned
By Agency Reporter
Monday, 11 Oct 2010


BIRMINGHAM: About 800 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Dave Edmonds is struggling to remind people about the BP oil spill, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.

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”Awareness has dropped. People don‘t really care about the people who were affected. They don‘t care about the fish life,” said Edmonds, founder of Taking Back the Gulf.

For Gulf residents fighting for economic survival, a nation‘s short attention span is deeply unsettling, especially with oil still washing ashore. Yet it‘s unclear whether Americans are turning their attention elsewhere, or whether it‘s just the media that have.

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Recent research also raises the question of whether the spill is being overlooked outside the Gulf region, or if information on recent developments is just harder to come by. A Pew Research Center study found that only one per cent of news coverage was dedicated to the spill last month, down from 22 per cent during the height of the crisis.

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edit: I thought of headlining this post, "Breaking: Dispersant Works"

[Subdivisions]

1. I feel for all whose lives have been impacted . However, I really don't know

what or who to believe about what is going on down there.

Of course we know that they will be left to their own just as the families of the victims of 9/11 and 9/11 first responders have been left to their own.

[G_j]

2. and Katrina, of course,

first rule it seems to me is, immediately question the voracity of authorities and the media. Chances are, they will be spinning, lying, distorting, etc.


(and if BP said it, you know it's a lie)

[Xipe Totec]

3. Another 'Job' well done and thoroughly skewered.

[alittlelark]

4. I care.

I'm sure millions of others would as well if they PAID ATTENTION.

Stop looking at the shiny thing....


Pay Attention.

[Panaconda]

5. K&R n/t

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, out of sight, out of mind, the MSM will move onto less boring topics for

the American public, like with Katrina and other disasters. And like the ongoing disaster of fracking which gets scant attention IMO. And a zillion other things... I feel so sorry for the people involved in these disasters that live in them each day, often out of sight, out of mind. The forgotten ones, like many anymore.

[EFerrari]

7. K&R. I guess many people have "moved on" and don't look for news

from the Gulf coast but a lot of us do. :grouphug:

[G_j]

8. and yet there was also this,

"However, a separate Pew survey found that 34 per cent of the people responding to a poll in mid-September said they were still very interested in the spill making it the top news item that week in terms of public interest.
Participants were presented with news topics and asked how much they were following them."

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[G_j]

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