| Subject: Re: BP "reporter" describes abundant Gulf wildlife and upcoming shrimp festivals. |
| From: "Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A." <science@zzz.com> |
| Date: 27/06/2010, 16:27 |
| Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic,alt.conspiracy |
On Jun 27, 7:31 am, Riaz Tayob <riaz.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:
[Probably cooked in their natural oils - Exxon, Valdez, BP, Chevron...]
"June 26, 2010, 11:52 am BP 'Reporter' Flies Over Gulf Without
Noting Slick By ANDREW C. REVKIN
A Facebook friend, Kristin Aldred Cheek, pointed me to a pretty
wild bit of faux journalism recently concocted by BP as part of its
public relations efforts related to the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.
On his blog, a BP "reporter," Tom Seslar, describes a two-hour
helicopter flight over the gulf with a team charting oil patches.
He somehow finds space in his post to describe the scope and vital
importance of the oil industry and the beauty of the coastal marshes.
He fits in a plug for the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival
scheduled for early September in Morgan City, La.,* and includes
the festival's promotional line describing "the unique way in which
these two seemingly different industries work hand-in-hand culturally
and environmentally" with no hint of the deep irony, of course.
But he doesn't include a single line describing the spreading gulf
slicks that the flight is supposed to chart. The effort provided
raw meat for Rachel Maddow (watch the result above).
BP Press Release Theatre: Flying Higher from The Rachel Maddow Show
on Vimeo.
Welcome to the post-media world. As conventional journalism becomes
a smaller wedge of the expanding pie of communication, anyone with
a vested interest can undertake the equivalent of a land grab,
trying to dominate the searchable infoscape of the World Wide Web.
(You may have heard that BP recently bought up search terms related
to the gulf oil disaster to direct Web sifters to its Web site.)
[* A helpful reader below noticed the festival is in Morgan City,
not Morgan as I first had it.]"
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/bp-reporter-flies-over-g...
out-noting-slick/
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