I doubt it’s about filming. The BP surface ships have to act with coordination and don’t want to have to navigate about hundreds of journalists (which is what you would get if you let one in).
Also: some of those journalists smoke. In some parts of the spill area, that could be dangerous.
You are getting caught up in the wrong issues to focus on.
What matters are the following:
What: the rules. Who - who makes the rules: BP or the CG? It is unfathomable that BP could think that in any situation that they (a private business) can tell citizens what they can and cannot do. They don’t get to run the Gulf. That is what people should focus on here - that BP thinks that it can make rules. Nope, doesn’t work that way.
BP doesn’t get to say squat about what the rules are. The CG does that. The CG, though, let it slip who the boss was down there.
The CG did not say that THEY didn’t want lots of journalists in there. The CG said that BP said that they couldn’t come in and that they (BP) were the ones making the rules.
There have been mnany times where there have been oil spills in the US. A past Gulf oil leak where around 150 million barrels got out occured, the Valdez occured and so on. There were tons of journalists that covered those and all the journalists didn’t cause a meltdown then and they wouldn’t cause one now, either.
Journalists smoked then, too. They didn’t catch themselves on fire and they didn’t burn up the area where they smoked, either.
Don’t give Obama any BP and the CG any bogus excuses.
BP apparently wants embedded reporters/journalists. That way, they will report the “official” story.
Don’t fall for their spin...