Comments for Media blackout in the Gulf, pt. 2 at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.theind.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:44:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6529-media-blackout-in-the-gulf-pt-2#comment-8767 " you say 65 feet is not a big deal."--actually what I was trying to say is that 65 feet is incompetent. If they want to shut out the media, then do it. If they want to allow media, then embed them with the workers. But this half-ass "regulation"--let's make it harder but not come out and overtly disallow it--that's just incompetence. " If Americans don't see oil on beaches and oil on birds and fish kills and workers complaining about inefficiencies" -- Uhhhh, I've seen all of that in the news. Haven't you? Maybe you guys are right, and the govt. is TRYING to control the message, but failing miserably at it. Now THAT sounds about right. - ragin_cajun Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:02:42 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6529-media-blackout-in-the-gulf-pt-2#comment-8717 The message is clear, the feds want to control the message. If Americans don't see oil on beaches and oil on birds and fish kills and workers complaining about inefficiencies, then these things don't exist. The perception is then what the feds tell and show us, and we all know perception is reality. So, you say 65 feet is not a big deal. I say any limit on transparency is a big deal. Security and safety are just crutches for the feds to lean on to control the message. - Wolverine! Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:44:31 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6529-media-blackout-in-the-gulf-pt-2#comment-8713 Actually, cajun coast man, the Coast Guard was plucking people off of roofs the day after Katrina, and I'm pretty sure they were responding to the oil spill in the same time frame. It's easy to sit back and criticize government and echo the cynicism broadcast on hate radio, much harder to dig for the truth and realize that there is actually some pragmatism in the systems we have developed over the decades. - Resident Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:46:25 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6529-media-blackout-in-the-gulf-pt-2#comment-8703 After the first few days of the spill it was crystal clear that we were looking at another post Katrina with nobody knowing what to do, one agency after another blocking our Cajun engineering know how by the likes of the Coast Guard, Corps of Engineer, EPA, Obama, Thad Allen and the MMS (whoops, there's been a name change here, no longer the MMS to protect the blunders of the 1,001 bureaucratic idiots)I say to Jindal, put General Honore in charge and let him mobilize our National Guard, volunteer offshore vessels and whatever he deems necessary. Let all the myriad of alphabet soup governmental agencies issue their orders that we can't do this and we can't do that and damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead. - cajun coast man Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:19:20 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6529-media-blackout-in-the-gulf-pt-2#comment-8684 I really don't know what to make of this. I don't really agree with Anderson that a rule that keeps reporters 65 feet away from boom keeps reporters from covering the spill--it just makes it harder for them to cover it. That doesn't really stop the press, it just makes it alot harder. It's like the feds are going out of their way to piss off the media. I really think the federal government is intentionally TRYING to botch the spill response. I think Nungesser and the other state/local level guys should just take it over and handle it all themselves. Say that they are totally in control over the spill response within the 3 mile limit/state waters, the feds can do what they want in federal waters. - ragin_cajun Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:33:26 +0100