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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 750740" data-attributes="member: 12952">Last week the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN reported on the&nbsp; government’s effort to keep pesky journalists exercising the First&nbsp; Amendment from reporting on the supposed oil cleanup and the&nbsp; environmental impact of the worst oil disaster in history. &nbsp; “Under threat of a federal felony, National Incident Commander Thad&nbsp; Allen has banned all media access to boom operation sites and clean up&nbsp; sites,” writes <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail??blogid=150&amp;entry_id=67132" target="_blank">Yobie Benjamin</a>.&nbsp; “Allen’s orders effectively bans all media — print, television, radio&nbsp; and Internet bloggers from talking to to any clean-up worker or to even&nbsp; come close to take pictures or videos of booms, clean-up workers, oil&nbsp; soaked birds, dead dolphins, dead marine life, burned and dead&nbsp; endangered sea turtles.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 750740, member: 12952"] Last week the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN reported on the government’s effort to keep pesky journalists exercising the First Amendment from reporting on the supposed oil cleanup and the environmental impact of the worst oil disaster in history. “Under threat of a federal felony, National Incident Commander Thad Allen has banned all media access to boom operation sites and clean up sites,” writes [URL="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail??blogid=150&entry_id=67132"][COLOR=#003366]Yobie Benjamin[/COLOR][/URL]. “Allen’s orders effectively bans all media — print, television, radio and Internet bloggers from talking to to any clean-up worker or to even come close to take pictures or videos of booms, clean-up workers, oil soaked birds, dead dolphins, dead marine life, burned and dead endangered sea turtles.” [/QUOTE]

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