Al Jazeera now reporting on illnesses in the Gulf while our media is silent

[Generic Other]

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Naman, who works at the Analytical Chemical Testing Lab in Mobile, Alabama, has been carrying out studies to search for the chemical markers of the dispersants BP used to both sink and break up its oil.

According to Naman, poly-aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from this toxic mix are making people sick. PAHs contain compounds that have been identified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic.

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"I’m scared of what I'm finding. These cyclic compounds intermingle with the Corexit and generate other cyclic compounds that aren’t good. Many have double bonds, and many are on the EPA's danger list. This is an unprecedented environmental catastrophe."

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Pathways of exposure to the dispersants are inhalation, ingestion, skin, and eye contact. Health impacts include headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pains, chest pains, respiratory system damage, skin sensitization, hypertension, central nervous system depression, neurotoxic effects, genetic mutations, cardiac arrhythmia, and cardiovascular damage.

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Severe upper respiratory, sinus and viral infections...brown vomit...nonstop diarrhea...skin rashes, nausea...sore throats, internal hemorrhaging...blood running out of ears...dizziness, light-headedness...neurological problems, lesions, sores, and ulcers...what does it take to get our media to investigate and report?????

MORE stories of individuals with alarming illnesses:

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/10/20101027132136220370.html

[madrchsod]

1. al zazeera has been ahead of our ministry of propaganda...

since the start of this disaster. i guess our media does`t want to offend the oil companies and their lackeys in the obama`s ministry of oil.

[Generic Other]

3. Some of the best reporting on the illnesses I have seen

Real people who give their names and their stories. Specifics.

[Selatius]

8. Huge oil companies buy millions of dollars worth of ad time on corporate news networks yearly.

It acts as a disincentive to news networks to report too critically on oil companies whenever they do wrong. I mean, obviously they couldn't not report on the disastrous spill; it was too big to ignore at the time, but once the spill was out of the way, they were more than willing to simply drop coverage. There are notable exceptions in the media though, such as Anderson Cooper calling out some of their bullshit that BP was trying to pull, but other than that, there isn't much.

Corporations that buy huge amounts of ad time on news networks acts as a general disincentive to report on critical issues that may sway voters against supporting corporate interests or may cast those corporations in a harsh light. This is how one can control the news media without directly having the state intervene and nationalize the networks like what Hitler or Mussolini did.

[Generic Other]

9. Even public television is infected with "sponsorship"

It does make honest unbiased reporting seem impossible.

Isn't it all controlled by five major organizations? How on earth do we fight this information embargo!

[SpiralHawk]

18. RepubliCorp Media is on bended knee to its RepubliMasters

The Villagers (R) are not about to report anything that deviates from the RepubliFantasy.

[spanone]

2. 'our media' bwahahahaaa

[Generic Other]

4. sadly you are right

they are a joke. If there was contamination of hair spray supplies, they'd be on it!!

[spanone]

5. only if it affected starlets on the today show

[ensho]

6. true, Al Jazeera reports news/facts our media doesn't

but then our media is run by neo con CEOs

[Generic Other]

7. It makes me appreciate indie bloggers and DUers

they/we have become our media.

When newspapers moan about the lack of readership, maybe they should factor in the fact they give us no content worth reading!
You cannot work for the corporate pravda and be journalists.

[gratuitous]

10. Oh, that's all cleaned up! On to something else, now

What just kills me is that the people most affected by this, and by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, are the ones who could benefit the most from a little publicity. Yet, even as Big Oil's criminal negligence is killing them and they're in the midst of an unprecedented environmental catastrophe, they're the same ones yammering about how unfair it is that people making over a quarter million a year might have to pay a few extra pennies on the dollar in taxes.

[Generic Other]

11. I agree! Even stories about how people are coping....rebuilding

Those heartwarn=ming kind of stories of recovering wildlife, old men catching fish off docks again, pods of playful dolphin in blue waters, people chowing down on huge platters of seafood. We would expect to see these sort of stories. To reassure us thingss are back to normal. But they aren't and we aren't seeing these stories. Surprise.

[Poboy]

12. k&r

[deaniac21]

13. They are the only news organization in the world that clearly has

no agenda.

[Generic Other]

14. Everyone has an agenda, but I think that but they are willing to report

stories our media ignores. I always appreciated seeing their perspective on Middle Eastern issues and expected them to be somewhat more sympathetic to Muslim causes.

In the case of the Gulf stories, they seem to be able to be objective and open minded. They have no dog in this race like the MSM in the US.

[Generic Other]

15. kicking for the Gulf coasters

Don't want any of y'all missing important stories that BP wants to bury.

[Parker CA]

16. Kick and Rec for visibility!! Disgusting that our media has ignored and continues to ignore this. nt

[Greyhound]

17. K&R for truth.

[northernlights]

19. disgraceful.

Dr Ott said: " ....I know two people who are down to 4.75 per cent of their lung capacity, their heart has enlarged to make up for that, and their esophagus is disintegrating, and one of them is a 16-year-old boy who went swimming in the Gulf."

[Generic Other]

20. And even here at DU it is necessary to deffend Dr. Ott's findings

That part is a bit discouraging.