Posted on 07/13/2010 10:23:32 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The Coast Guard has modified a policy on safety zones around boom deployed on oiled coastlines, a policy news organizations had said unnecessarily restricted coverage of the impact of the BP oil spill and efforts to clean it up.
In a statement Monday night, the government's point man for the spill, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said new procedures permit credentialed news media free travel within the boom safety zones.
News organizations, including The Associated Press, had argued being kept at least 65 feet away from the boom impeded the ability to cover the spill.
(Excerpt) Read more at sulphurdailynews.com ...
O.K. so where’s new footage?
Obamamedia can’t blame them anymore.
This means they are purposefully blacking out the footage now, with no one to blame...
Where are the centrifuges? epa and their 15 PPM requirement blocks their use.
ruefully
what right does the Coast Guard have to stop the press...
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