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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 750887" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>The better news are the local news outlets in the area (to a point because of network and ad rev. influence) but also YouTube is a good source as well. YouTube has vids from BP itself who has their own channel, to average folk acting as guerilla journalist to anti-oil activists with clear agendas but you have to be the one to figure out which best represents the truth. About a month ago, a pro fisherman I know through a co-worker was down off the coast outside Destin Florida and he reported tar balls and the water color looked different. Just over a week away, said co-worker was in Panama City Fl. as well as Mexico Beach to the east and he saw no oil or even tarballls. He said the tidal pools inside the sand bars looked it's typical aqua blue but beyond the sand bars into deeper water the color just didn't look right to him. He did some surf fishing and he felt no oil on his skin but he still felt something was not normal because of the deeper water color.</p><p></p><p>He also reported he went to the jetties at St. Andrews and where you enter Panama City Bay the locals had put booms in place and from what he could tell when the tide goes out the open the booms and the the tides coming in they close the booms to keep the oil from entering the bay. Depending on who you talk to, when and where they go, the conditions are not always the same and I'm sure the weather, tides, etc. are a big factor in that.</p><p></p><p>I'd not rely to much on big media because between ad money from oil related business to headquarters and maintaining access by mouthing the company line from Washington, I'm not convinced you'd get the hard facts no matter which way they point. Summer tourists, video cameras and YouTube/Facebook, etc. may prove a more reliable source (sorry CNN but you ain't it) than any MSM news source.</p><p></p><p>As an aside, the reality of the news business is it requires ad revenue to happen. The darkside is that companies with vested interests can use their ad dollars to drive a storyline and very often they do. That's life, get use to it. YouTube "The Corporation Unsettled Accounts" if you want to see just one example at the local news level at how specific storyline can be driven by a major corp. interest. And if you go that far, YouTube "The Corporation Basic Training" and you'll never watch commercials or any form of advertising the same way again!</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p><p></p><p>addendum: The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100707094018/http://www.examiner.com/x-34929-Manhattan-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m7d3-White-House-suspends-First-Amendment-rights-in-covering-damage-from-oil-spill?" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">reason</span></a> guerilla journalist and the Net may be the greatest outlet of truth but then another reason the need for various vested interests to control also!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 750887, member: 2189"] The better news are the local news outlets in the area (to a point because of network and ad rev. influence) but also YouTube is a good source as well. YouTube has vids from BP itself who has their own channel, to average folk acting as guerilla journalist to anti-oil activists with clear agendas but you have to be the one to figure out which best represents the truth. About a month ago, a pro fisherman I know through a co-worker was down off the coast outside Destin Florida and he reported tar balls and the water color looked different. Just over a week away, said co-worker was in Panama City Fl. as well as Mexico Beach to the east and he saw no oil or even tarballls. He said the tidal pools inside the sand bars looked it's typical aqua blue but beyond the sand bars into deeper water the color just didn't look right to him. He did some surf fishing and he felt no oil on his skin but he still felt something was not normal because of the deeper water color. He also reported he went to the jetties at St. Andrews and where you enter Panama City Bay the locals had put booms in place and from what he could tell when the tide goes out the open the booms and the the tides coming in they close the booms to keep the oil from entering the bay. Depending on who you talk to, when and where they go, the conditions are not always the same and I'm sure the weather, tides, etc. are a big factor in that. I'd not rely to much on big media because between ad money from oil related business to headquarters and maintaining access by mouthing the company line from Washington, I'm not convinced you'd get the hard facts no matter which way they point. Summer tourists, video cameras and YouTube/Facebook, etc. may prove a more reliable source (sorry CNN but you ain't it) than any MSM news source. As an aside, the reality of the news business is it requires ad revenue to happen. The darkside is that companies with vested interests can use their ad dollars to drive a storyline and very often they do. That's life, get use to it. YouTube "The Corporation Unsettled Accounts" if you want to see just one example at the local news level at how specific storyline can be driven by a major corp. interest. And if you go that far, YouTube "The Corporation Basic Training" and you'll never watch commercials or any form of advertising the same way again! :wink2: addendum: The [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20100707094018/http://www.examiner.com/x-34929-Manhattan-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m7d3-White-House-suspends-First-Amendment-rights-in-covering-damage-from-oil-spill?'][COLOR=red]reason[/COLOR][/URL] guerilla journalist and the Net may be the greatest outlet of truth but then another reason the need for various vested interests to control also! [/QUOTE]
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