Interview with Laurie Bernstein of the TV station WEAR, an ABC affiliate. She explains how pissed off Florida residents are that Louisiana allowed deepwater offshore drilling, resulting in the BP deepwater horizon oil spill.
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Near Pensacola, FL, generator problems are changing our plans and we’re heading home taking a western route for better temps and less traffic. i’ll try and find a new thermostat and change out on the road but it’s Saturday today.
Baldwin County, AL -- The beaches were open in Alabama’s Gulf Shores. they looked clean but the locals avoided the water. The beaches were not as crowded as they normally would be that time of year and this gentleman who had worked as a manager in the oil industry gave some insight into the local take on the safety of the water on that day, and the job done by the national television press in their coverage.
LAFAYETTE, LA - As you may already know some of the news you see on television is actually produced by the companies that are part of the news story. All the major news networks CNN, MSNBC, and FOX were sponsored by BP during their coverage of the contamination of the Gulf. BP is of course a large company but smaller companies often cooperate by forming an association to promote their causes and handle public relations. One of those associations is the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association or LOGA. LOGA produces it’s own news and that news finds it’s way onto the major networks. In that way, LOGA is able to promote their industry and point of view.
Is the seafood safe to eat after the biggest oil contamination in US history has been mixed into the Gulf of Mexico and is now invisible to the naked eye. Would you serve it to your children? What about at a rally against the temporary ban on new Deepwater Drilling at the Cajundome in the heart of Cajun Lafayette Louisiana where traditional Cajun cuisine usually is pungent with the flavor of seafood and fishing is part of the state motto.
While shopping for the bus we luxuriated in the fine air conditioning system of Albertsons grocery store discovered the Nana Saver. an invention only a mother could love. |
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