Another Catastrophic Oil Spill Hits Gulf Coast, Corporate Media Completely Ignores It

[GoLeft TV]

Did you happen to know that there was a pretty massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week? Because the corporate media definitely didn’t get the memo. Nearly 90,000 gallons of oil was spilled out of a Shell oil facility. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

[jalan48]

1. I've noticed the corporate media ignores a lot of things.

If the corporate media doesn't report certain events then the events never really happened or are insignificant. Political rallies come to mind.

[truebrit71]

5. Right?

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[GreatGazoo]

2. it got minor coverage

for better or worse: Deepwater Horizon was 4.9 million barrels and this one, mercifully, was 2,100 barrels

[thereismore]

3. WTF!!

[Cassiopeia]

4. We're busy worrying about who is peeing and where they do it.

Sadly, we're easily distracted.

[silvershadow]

7. +1 million. nt

[silvershadow]

6. K&R nt

[jwirr]

8. You mean Rachel is not going down to take a look at it?

[bjo59]

9. Yes, I knew it but it is a bad state of affairs when the probably majority of the

country can pinpoint the fact of censored media in "those other countries" but have no idea just how censored our own media is. Democracy cannot survive that over time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Catastrophic? Nothing like the 2010 spill. Two Thousand times smaller. 4/100 ths of a percent.

4,900,000 barrels versus 2,100 barrels. That is a factor of 2333 times larger. Four one-hundredths of a percent.

Bad, yes.

Oversold as "catastrophic"? Probably.

[valerief]

11. I knew about it only because I read it on DU. nt

[Jitter65]

12. Too busy spinning for Trump and Bernie. nt

[Ilsa]

13. Maybe if roughnecks had been killed like at the Deep Horizon

Drilling site, they'd pay attention.

I don't mean to be disrespectful or snarky or flippant about loss of life. But you know the old saying, "If it bleeds, it leads."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. NBC, WSJ, UPI, NYT, HuffPo, WaPo, Weather Chan, BBC, Toronto Star & more all in a timely way.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tens-thousands-gallons-crude-oil-spill-gulf-mexico-n573311
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/05/13/shells-brutus-production-platform-spills-oil-into-gulf-of-mexico/
http://weather.com/science/environment/news/shell-oil-spill-brutus-platform-gulf-of-mexico
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Industry/2016/05/13/More-than-2000-barrels-of-oil-spilled-in-Gulf-of-Mexico/4361463144548/

Many more like that reported on May 12th and May 13th, over a week ago. All over the USA, in multiple countries, in major media that are broadcast, print, and online.

The OP is wrong.

[Lodestar]

15. I posted about that in the Environment forum and barely got a response.

I think media knows how to distract for certain, but it may also be a case of
crisis or focus fatigue.

[niyad]

16. I did read about it--come to think of it, probably here.