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Originally Posted by Robbie
Easy there cherrylula! We're just discussing this. No need to turn it ugly. How is somebody a loser or a message board warrior for simply saying what is all over CNN right now?
Hell, maybe they are all lying about it to help BP...after spending the last 4 months completely demonizing them.
I think the news just reports whatever gets them good ratings at any given moment.
But you are in New Orleans right? So you have been out on the water to see this stuff and are getting first hand reports from actual fishermen and others who make their living on the water there.
Why not hunt down these guys being interviewed on television and ask them what the hell they are talking about?
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The news dows report whatever gets them good ratings, and they get press releases and media submitted to them. My husband is out there right now working cleanup and not a single person working with him would say its almost cleaned up. That is laughable.
Really I don't care enough to chase bad stories, even posting here has sucked up my valuable time these days. But it is very frustrating seeing all the family and friends I have down here on facebook crying everyday, posting videos, news stories. Going on and on about how they ate seafood 5-7 days a week, and now BP is telling them to eat chinese food instead because there is no local seafood anymore. NO LOCAL SEA FOOD, I don't know where they get these stories about fisherman going back to work down here.
Anyways this thread really caught me off guard, its fucking scary to see the media machine working like this. And disturbing to see a group of people just go "oh yeah there's a video on CNN, its all ok, yeah disaster wrapping up glad its fixed, yadda yadda."
This disaster ruined lives, its people that don't even really use the internet, these Cajuns down here. But whatever. Let dynamo quote people and tell them he saw the news and they are wrong the disaster is fixed. Such is the interweb and message boards.
Back to the real world.