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Coast Guard lifts ban on news coverage near booms
SulphurDailyNews.com ^ | 7/13/10 | AP

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coverage; media; oilspill

1 posted on 07/13/2010 10:23:34 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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...


2 posted on 07/13/2010 10:31:47 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Where are the centrifuges? epa and their 15 PPM requirement blocks their use.

ruefully


3 posted on 07/13/2010 10:35:00 AM PDT by petro45acp (Hey Doc! Don't tell me how to live my life. CURE what ails me so I can live how I choose.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

what right does the Coast Guard have to stop the press...


4 posted on 07/13/2010 1:09:54 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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