Comments for Media blackout in the Gulf? at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 30 out of 20 comments http://www.theind.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:17:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8766 DUDE! We're arguing about whether there's a media blackout in the Gulf. The reporter was detained, asked for identification, and released. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Refineries and chemical plants are terrorist targets, and they are targets of corporate espionage. You cannot take pictures of most chemical plants at all without prior permission. It's been that way. It didn't start after the oil spill in the Gulf, and it does not constitute evidence of a media blackout in the Gulf, or a cover-up. - ragin_cajun Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:54:23 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8677 http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0703/bp-cops-detain-reporter-pictures-oil-refinery/ - Questions Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:51:39 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8673 Questions-- can you repaste the link? doesn't work for me....... - ragin_cajun Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:05:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8663 BP cops detain reporter for taking pictures of oil refinery - http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0703/bp-cops-detain-reporter-pictures-oil-refinery/ Don't you think it's funny how police are more concerned with protecting BP's image, rather than, say, secure the Mexican/US border? What good is Dutchland Security if all they're doing is busting idiots in Time Square, making appearances on "To Catch a Predator," being lapdogs for BP and when there's a war going on just south of us? - Questions Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:46:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8645 HARDHAT-- thought everyone might appreciate this. http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/59369a0027aa4bd7b9b7a6eac0b92079/US--Gulf_Oil_Spill-Free_to_Talk/ - ragin_cajun Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:29:36 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8621 Anyone that has ever worked in the Gulf on rigs (not platforms) has heard of the "Midnight Barge". That is when the Toolpusher or Company Man makes you dump thousands of gallons of waste oil into the water, or you will be a "runned off MF"... - Old Rig Hand Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:18:18 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8619 Oh, and as to how money can buy a president or a governor, I saw that the last time money bought a president and a governor. The shoe is always tighter when its on the other foot..... - Morrow Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:54:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8618 A country without a free press is not a free country. Period. As much as some might not like what they read, the press must remain free. When did BP get the right to use US National Guard to prevent the press from using free US air space? How is the US better than any communist country if the press is denied access to report. As all these little incidents are tolerated, they add up to a big loss of basic rights. The other day I heard a woman say she was afraid "the wrong party" would get elected again. I cringe at terms like that. Who is the wrong party?? Next it might be "the wrong religion" or "the wrong color". There is no freedom if the press is not free. - Morrow Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:52:25 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8605 HARDHAT-- Ok, so you're old, and you've been everywhere, and you've seen it all. I get it. But age and experience tripping pipe don't lend authority to your position--only facts hold sway in a reasoned debate. If you have facts and evidence of a coordinated effort by BP and Bobby Jindal to institute a "media blackout", then by all means let's see it. If anybody else has evidence of extra-terrestrial life, let's see that, too. But I will not just accept it as gospel truth because you say it's so. No matter how old you are, how much pipe you've pulled outta the hole, or how nasty you talk to me. See, that only works on the rig floor, hand. - ragin_cajun Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:23:54 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8571 Ragin cajun, son you haven't earned the right to call me, Hand. Yes, i have been places you can't find on your map, and i was their at the falklands when our great military along with the british were highy publicized by the media courtesy of our US government, and you did not complain that the cameras were interrupting the invasion, AW ,Hell you were still in your PAMPERS, THEN ! sucking your noonie. - HARDHAT Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:28:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8570 written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN. Arianna...work for the Lafayette Daily Rag. ---------------------------------- Started too but was laid off immediately. - Ariana Puffington Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:14:48 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8563 Having Wackenhut security guys refuse to identify who they work for while dissuading reporters from doing their job certainly doesn't help add to "letting you know what we’re doing to make it right” - T-tib Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:41:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8561 N.S. I have no idea what welfare checks or the Daily Advertiser have to do with the substance of my comment. Please expound on that, preferably in more coherent words than your usual. - Resident Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:27:09 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8560 HARDHAT-- Answer me this, hand. You ever seen a news crew from WDSU on a rig floor while you were tripping all that pipe? Probably not. Does that mean that you've tripped millions of pipe under a "media blackout"? Of course not. I'm sure you've worked overseas in some pretty nasty places. Lemme guess...how's press coverage work in Nigeria? Indonesia? China? Former Soviet Republics like Kazakstan? I"m sure you've been to the Mid East in all your years in the oilfield. When the kingdom decides no press, they know how to REALLY achieve a media blackout--wouldn't you agree? Controlling access to a worksite is not a media blackout. If someone can show me some REAL evidence--not just some childish arguements on a beach between a surly reporter and a surly BP contractor--then I'd be persuaded. But this article just doesn't constitute evidence of a media blackout. That's all I'm trying to say, Grandpa. - ragin_cajun Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:55:46 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8557 Ragin_cajun, i have 50 years in the oilfield and have tripped millions of feet of pipe, a couple of million more than you, and i've personally observed the spills that were covered up with disperants, as in a canal in the marsh, after pouring disperant chemicals over the side of the rig, a tug boat butts up against the rig and with the motor in gear roiling the canal water and mud, until the disperant worked its magic. in those days if you had a wife and kids you kept your mouth shut. Now son just because you haven't witnessed this act it doesn't mean it isn't happening...........But, i will concede this, because there are more yahoos with their heads in the sand, than there are intelligent people who question, and are not prone to bend over on command, this planet as we know it will be poisoned in the next 20-30 years, unfit for the inhabitants. I guess you'll be in Hopedale on the bank of the canal catching two-headed, one-eyed catfish, EH ? - HARDHAT Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:39:51 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8556 BP has enough hard assests to buy the Vatican and all the treasures in the basement of the Vatican all the way back to the time of the beginning of " Christianity, and thats another Farce ". Ay send me $20.00, only this week, i'll send you three prayer cloths, One for Health, One for Wealth, and One to wipe your Tailth. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:16:46 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8555 Why is it that anything UFO related gets ridiculed? Come on wake up. Everybody knows or at least suspects that something other than us is out there. It's a cheap shot. Whether or not the failed actor/anchors of CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, and others report on it is another story that is probably related to this one in more ways than you would guess. What does that have to do with "credibility" other than an unspoken fraternity of people who rely only on major media news to spoon feed them a sanitized, dumbed down, neatly packaged version of reality? The news reported is but a percentage of the reality we the truth we all experience. - wake up time Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:08:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8554 Hardhat, you sir have witnessed the power of BIG OIL's purchasing power, from the lowly councilman, two for $100.00 to the highest office in the UNITED STATES, the """ PRESIDENCY $ 00000000,0000000, OOOOO00.00 and a 10 million dollar mansion on a ranch...... - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:07:09 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8553 Arianna & Resident, either you two are joined at the hip with dual welfare receipient checks, or you work for the Lafayette Daily Rag, which is it, Fess Up ! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:01:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6478-media-blackout-in-the-gulf#comment-8550 Jason F, " never trust anyone but yourself, and never believe anyone is on the same page you are on, on any agenda, at any time ........If you want to change things you have to change things yourself, also this Weekly, The Ind! got more balls than the "Wilson Corporation, and if i trust anyone not to sell-out, it will be THE INDEPENDENT.......These guys behave like they get paid to stir the, POT ! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:45:08 +0100