Is it just me but does the oil spill not seem to be getting much coverage?

[Peregrine Took]

On tv, on the 'net - everywhere.

I wonder why this is?

Was it overplayed in the beginning, are the graphics not telling enough?

I can't understand it. It seems that only the Der Spiegel was really conveying the message how bad it is.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/

[ShamelessHussy]

1. i'm looking for good images of the spill and it's position/size over the past week

and i am having trouble finding it online.

i can't even find an official source on how much oil is in that well.

maybe i am not looking in the right places :shrug:

[csziggy]

7. Try NOAA

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=tae&storyid=51828&source=0

[ShamelessHussy]

15. no links to any sat images of the spill, on that page, but you would think there would be

:shrug:

here are some pics they link to here...
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/

but i was hoping for sat images that could at least show the actual progression of the hemorrhage from day one to the present, using different rendering types to make it clear to see, even if it is not visible to the naked eye (similar to what they do with weather events)

[csziggy]

22. They've changed their pages since this morning

They did have links to Earth Observatory - here is the direct link:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/event.php?id=43733

Problem is between the way the oil is getting dispersed and the clouds and rain, it is not easy to get a visual on it every day.

[Duer 157099]

2. It's not just you, I agree n/t

[blaze]

3. Can you say Corporation?

Media is corporate controlled.

This might hurt a corporation.

Maybe I'm way off the mark, but that's how I see it.

[texastoast]

4. But what media outlet will show this?=Warning Graphic

It's not like you have the journalists who have the balls to publish THAT in mass media.

[hayu_lol]

8. With forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and the like...

there is action. Once people have seen an oil slick, there is nothing in an action sense to see. Oil slicks just lie there.

[texastoast]

17. I think there are a lot of animal stories

And at one time, that was news in this nation.

And with the animal stories, there are people stories. Sad day that unless it blows up, there is no story, or only rarely. Gifted journalists are weeping.

[flvegan]

5. Here in Tampa, it's the biggest thing being covered by the news.

Taken over the main headlines, the weather, etc. If our baseball team were called the Oilers, it would be the main topic for the sports segment as well.

[Arctic Dave]

6. Didn't you hear, the pumping bells are ALMOST built, castastrophy diverted.

That is, IF they work.

[texastoast]

9. What do you think?

Work or damage the pipe further?

[Arctic Dave]

12. I think it is going to work very well at blowing up another ship.

When they suck up this oil they will be bringing up the same flammable concoction that took out the Horizon. I have never seen this contraption they are hoping to save the day but it sounds like a death trap. It takes a lot of equipment to bring this stuff up out of the ground safely, this plan sounds like they are going to dump it in a tanker most likely without any type of seperation. That means lots of of methane(Kaboom)and H2S.

[texastoast]

18. Oh, man, I hadn't thought of that

until you just said it. But then again, I'm not paid to, like the BP execs are.

Who are those goldhats?

[Subdivisions]

10. I noticed that too. I think everyone is in a breath-holding phase until these

domes get deployed. If they work, the story will fade even more. And the weather is cooperating in keeping the slick from making landfall. Didn't a BP spokesman say yesterday they had managed to squelch the flow somewhat too?

[TheWatcher]

24. There was a BP spokesman who attempted to spread that line of Propaganda, yes.

Later in the afternoon, he was thoroughly debunked by something even more rare than the Hope Diamond or a Hemi-Cuda.

Someone from BP who ACTUALLY told THE TRUTH and said that the earlier report was not true, and there had been no change.

[jody]

11. IMO most people including me have no grasp of the cost to our economy and environment from the BP

disaster.

If all the costs could be determined it could be hundreds of billions of dollars, all to be paid for by we taxpayers either directly or indirectly.

[gravity]

13. There have been no new developments in the Gulf and an attempted terrorist attack in NYC

The media found something more interesting to cover at the moment

[Edweird]

14. It's just now on the front page of the sun-sentinel site.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/

[truedelphi]

16. Any story reflecting poorly on the oil Industry is

Not going to stay in the news once the bodies are recovered.

In the mid nineties, it took two years and hundreds of thousands of people protesting MTBE (gas additive) to finally get the media to start reporting on the issue. And that public involvement had to happen without much media coverage because Big Oil controls the stories that are run.

[texastoast]

19. I remember MTBE

And how the oil companies spun that it "couldn't get in the water tables and poison everyone."

:grr:

They always, ALWAYS lie about their environmental impact.

Edited for too much wine.

[truedelphi]

23. What goes better with

Texastoast, than Wine? Sounds good to me.

[obxhead]

20. I think it's because we can't do anything about it...

all the solutions are so long term. It's not like Katrina when we could watch the boats and helicopters pluck people off of their roof. This is just spewing away, with no end in sight and resources stretched thin.

I've also thought it odd that the price of crude isn't going insane.

[applegrove]

21. The 8:00 PM CBC tv show is being broadcast from venice LA. That the canadian channel.