Journalists Not Getting Access to BP Oil Spill; Country Faces Shortage of Heartbreaking Goopy-Animal Photos

Newsweek has posted an expose of sorts that documents leaky oil company BP’s repeated efforts to avoid bad PR by doing the obvious thing — keeping photographers away from the most heinous scenes of the Gulf oil spill.

Says Newsweek:

More than a month into the disaster, a host of anecdotal evidence is emerging from reporters, photographers, and TV crews in which BP and Coast Guard officials explicitly target members of the media, restricting and denying them access to oil-covered beaches, staging areas for clean-up efforts, and even flyovers.


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