Does anyone else ever remember a media blackout about anything except perhaps ongoing war battles? This is unAmerican and a violation of freedom of the press.
Telling the media they are 'blacked out' from something only makes them determined to 'expose it'.
The only reason their is any apparent 'blackout' is because the media willingly 'blacked it out'.
Funny how there is a ton of information on every aspect, every opinion, every fact, every rumor, along with tons of pictures available on the internet.
Right now I am watching them PREP the new CAP that is expected to contain all the leaking oil from the Cut off Riser.
When before were you able to have 12 WEBCAMS available , ONLINE, watching the work on such a catastrophe?
If the MSM is not able to GET THE NEWS, it's because they don't want it.
...A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to snap photographs of the oil slicks blackening the water. The response from a BP contractor who answered the phone late last month at the command center was swift and absolute: Permission denied.”
This behavior is completely unacceptable. Access by reporters should be as unfettered as possible. This de facto form of censorship needs to stop.
The web site of the tabloid Star magazine, 25 hours and 27 minutes later:
Al Gore‘s split from wife Tipper after 40 years of marriage was a shock to everyone who thought theirs was the ideal marriage. Now Star can exclusively reveal that the former Vice President was having an affair with Larry David‘s ex-wife — for the past two years!