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BP hires mercenaries
Posted on 6/15/10 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 6/15/10 at 4:30 pm
"BP, in a move destined to go down as one of the bestest public relations moves ever, has apparently hired a private security company to help to keep pesky reporters from covering the unfolding catastrophe on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. The report comes via New Orleans’ 6WDSU reporter Scott Walker, who last week ran into representatives of a “Talon Security” trying to block him from interviewing cleanup workers on a local beach. Just which of the various companies named “Talon Security” is storming the (public) beaches for BP, however, remains unclear.
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:10 pm to LSUinWV
While I have trouble giving a reporter that uses the word "bestest" any credibility, it's a good article.
Report really didn't say much about what they have been hired to do though. It lists just one instance of a run in with them, and for all we know, the reporter left out some important detail as to why they wouldn't allow him to interview the clean up workers.
Report really didn't say much about what they have been hired to do though. It lists just one instance of a run in with them, and for all we know, the reporter left out some important detail as to why they wouldn't allow him to interview the clean up workers.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:13 pm to LSUinWV
If the reporters were worth a damn, they would have reported similiar stuff a month ago.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:41 pm to notiger1997
CNN had the same report about a week ago. The reporter even showed the guards and workers a copy of BP's press release saying "workers were not prohibited from talking to the media".
They didn't seem to care about the press release.
They didn't seem to care about the press release.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:45 pm to LSUinWV
funny thing is, the reporters are not going to get any workers to talk to them.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:50 pm to prplhze2000
Not only will they not talk to them, when the reporters approach them in the parking lots after work, the workers cover their faces and run the other way like defendents walking out the back of court.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 11:17 pm to Bowe Knows
Major news outlets have dickheads for reporters. BP takes them around and they spend the entire day looking at what is going on and then when they do their report they role around in any oil they can find and report NOTHING of the good that they saw... only the bad.
Oh wait... I am exaggerating there was one news crew that didn't do that of all the ones that have been to grand isle. They were from Europe!
Oh wait... I am exaggerating there was one news crew that didn't do that of all the ones that have been to grand isle. They were from Europe!
Posted on 6/15/10 at 11:19 pm to omegaman66
Lets put it this way. You shuffle these jerks around all day even feed them. Then when they spot the first oil they have seen all day they pick it up and rub it on their face and closes. The the cameras roll.
Sounds like an honest reporter that needs his arse kicked to me.
Sounds like an honest reporter that needs his arse kicked to me.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 11:21 pm to omegaman66
There are notamy good things that BP is doing out there to report on, there opperation is a cluster frick.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 11:25 pm to Dizz
At least that is what they dumb arse media is saying.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 11:26 pm to Dizz
quote:
There are notamy good things that BP is doing out there to report on, there opperation is a cluster frick.
I disagree. Over the last couple weeks the cleanup effort seems to have gotten more organized.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:53 am to BROffshoreTigerFan
quote:
While I have trouble giving a reporter that uses the word "bestest" any credibility
I actually read this as a "tongue-in-cheek" comment. Anyway..
Posted on 6/16/10 at 9:11 am to LSUinWV
So did I.
Are you a reporter?
I only ask because of the statement that you chose to quote and not everything I said about the article.
Are you a reporter?
I only ask because of the statement that you chose to quote and not everything I said about the article.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 9:53 am to BROffshoreTigerFan
no - not a reporter. actually, i have seen this story in various forms several places - "news" sites-blogs-what have you and, more specifically to your point, that was actually the most credible/informative.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 10:19 am to omegaman66
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Lets put it this way. You shuffle these jerks around all day even feed them. Then when they spot the first oil they have seen all day they pick it up and rub it on their face and closes. The the cameras roll.
Sounds like an honest reporter that needs his arse kicked to me.
You’ve got to be kidding me. You honestly believe BP brings these people to the areas that are really affected? When BP tours these groups, they show them what they want them to see. BP has not been honest about one thing to date. What purpose would BP have to show you the worse of what is really going on?
Seeing some of the emails of the people making the decisions that led to the blowout just makes me feel more and more that these people should go to jail for a very long time.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 11:37 am to Tiger55
bp has taken reporter to the cleanup areas. Does bp attempt to put there best foot forward? Duh
Posted on 6/16/10 at 1:56 pm to Tiger55
My borther is working security for BP. Hired gun by a third party. Paying $2000 net a week to keep anyone with a camera out. At least that's what they were told.
He said they bring in bus loads of "clean up" people in white haz suits to "clean up" when someone important or the media will be coming but once they leave, the "clean up" workers leave to, having done very little actualy clen up at all.
There are 4 times as many security guards than clean up people.
He said they bring in bus loads of "clean up" people in white haz suits to "clean up" when someone important or the media will be coming but once they leave, the "clean up" workers leave to, having done very little actualy clen up at all.
There are 4 times as many security guards than clean up people.
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