Corrente Boldly shrill ... http://www.correntewire.com/node/12478/atom/feed 2008-07-26T01:06:38-04:00 Mississippi Oil Spill: What's the Media Hiding? http://www.correntewire.com/mississippi_oil_spill_whats_the_media_hiding 2008-07-26T01:04:55-04:00 2008-07-26T01:06:38-04:00 Sarah At 1:30 in the morning on July 23, a double-hulled tanker collided with a barge being pushed by a tugboat in the Mississippi River. More than 9980 barrels of fuel oil emptied from the destroyed barge into the water. Yet there's been no national television coverage. No photos like this one:

have been reprinted on the front page of every newspaper in the country. Why?

When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound in 1989, as had happened with the Ixtoc I spill from a leaking Gulf well and happened with the Santa Barbara spill (out of which came the ban on drilling the GOP so desperately wants to rip aside now), the pictures of oil-soaked birds and the descriptions of the damage done to the shores and seabeds were inescapable.

Photo from wwwl-tv, NOLa. Taken from US Coast Guard patrol boat.

So why is the 10,000-barrel oil spill on the Mississippi river different? No M$M coverage of the devastation unleashed by more than 400,000 gallons of oil in the water supply for New Orleans; no film of black gunk on the shorelines, trapped wildlife dying

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